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Bug 66389

Summary:	Buffer overflow in versions < 0.8.11
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pawel Salek <pawsa>
Component:	libesmtp	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	kmaraas, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/download.html#previous
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Description Pawel Salek 2002-06-09 19:13:33 UTC

There is a serious buffer overflow bug in all previous versions. This would
permit a malicious SMTP server to overwrite the stack and hence a carefully
crafted multiline response could download arbitrary code to be executed.

Visit the specified URL for more info. The fix (0.8.11) was released on 2002-03-06

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-02-12 11:52:19 UTC

This is CAN-2002-1090 (cve.mitre.org).  libesmptd is only used by balsa in the
distribution.

Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-02 23:09:49 UTC

Still not on the ftp servers?

Comment 3 David Lawrence 2003-04-03 20:34:01 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-109.html