metadata/glsa/glsa-202006-12.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202006-12">
  <title>GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in GNU Mailutils allowing privilege
    escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mailutils</product>
  <announced>2020-06-13</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-06-13</revised>
  <bug>700806</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-mail/mailutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including
      an IMAP4 server (imap4d).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>GNU Mailutils runs maidag by default with setuid root permissions.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>An attacker can use this to write to arbitrary files as root.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNU Mailutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-mail/mailutils-3.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18862">CVE-2019-18862</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-05-12T21:52:25Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-06-13T01:51:38Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>