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The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:168 - Updated masqmail packages fix vulnerabilities for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:



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Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: masqmail
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:168
Date: September 20th, 2005

Affected versions: Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

Jens Steube discovered two vulnerabilities in masqmail:

When sending failed mail messages, the address was not properly
sanitized which could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary
commands as the mail user (CAN-2005-2662).

When opening the log file, masqmail did not relinquish privileges,
which could allow a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a
symlink attack (CAN-2005-2663).

The updated packages have been patched to address these issues.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-2662
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nameÊN-2005-2663
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Updated Packages:

Multi Network Firewall 2.0:
368d7259f0d1663f24ab0d96ef316520 mnf/2.0/RPMS/masqmail-0.2.18-3.1.M20mdk.i586.rpm
53c6095a108ea52147909091b262517f mnf/2.0/SRPMS/masqmail-0.2.18-3.1.M20mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>

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