Vulnerability CVE-2004-2771
Published: 2014-12-24

Description:
The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Oracle -> Linux 
Heirloom -> Mailx 
Bsd mailx project -> Bsd mailx 

 References:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105
http://secunia.com/advisories/61693
http://secunia.com/advisories/61585
http://secunia.com/advisories/60940
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html
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