<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200506-02"> <title>Mailutils: SQL Injection</title> <synopsis> GNU Mailutils is vulnerable to SQL command injection attacks. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">mailutils</product> <announced>2005-06-06</announced> <revised count="01">2005-06-06</revised> <bug>94824</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-mail/mailutils" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.6-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.6-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities. </p> </background> <description> <p> When GNU Mailutils is built with the "mysql" or "postgres" USE flag, the sql_escape_string function of the authentication module fails to properly escape the "\" character, rendering it vulnerable to a SQL command injection. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A malicious remote user could exploit this vulnerability to inject SQL commands to the underlying database. </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 available version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/mailutils-0.6-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1824">CAN-2005-1824</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-06-05T13:35:06Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-06-05T17:42:35Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-06-06T11:45:10Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>