Bug 816352 (CVE-2012-2140) - CVE-2012-2140 rubygem-mail: arbitrary command execution when using exim or sendmail from commandline
Summary: CVE-2012-2140 rubygem-mail: arbitrary command execution when using exim or se...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-2140
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 816355 854444 854446 854447 857074 995685
Blocks: 816354 836071 892883
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Reported: 2012-04-25 21:04 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:52 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubgem-mail 2.4.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-03-15 04:01:08 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1542 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: CloudForms Commons 1.1 security update 2012-12-05 00:29:06 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2012-04-25 21:04:55 UTC 
Two flaws were corrected in rubygem-mail version 2.4.4:

A file system traversal in file_delivery method [1].

Arbitrary command execution when using exim or sendmail from the commandline [2],[3].

[1] https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/29aca25218e4c82991400eb9b0c933626aefc98f
[2] https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/36b7fa23d38cb59dd79b7efa258ef0e7ddab5a11
[3] https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-04-25 21:09:45 UTC 
Created rubygem-mail tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 816355]
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2012-04-26 03:51:10 UTC 
Assigned CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-05-19 06:58:00 UTC 
rubygem-mail-2.4.4-1.fc15, rubygem-actionmailer-3.0.5-3.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-05-19 06:58:25 UTC 
rubygem-mail-2.4.4-1.fc16, rubygem-actionmailer-3.0.10-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-05-26 06:47:30 UTC 
rubygem-mail-2.4.4-1.fc17, rubygem-actionmailer-3.0.11-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:31:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  CloudForms for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2012:1542 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1542.html
Comment 12 Kurt Seifried 2013-01-03 22:29:57 UTC 
Moving this to CVE-2012-2140 only Bug, created CVE-2012-2139 Bz entry separately.
Comment 13 Tomas Hoger 2013-01-04 07:42:55 UTC 
This bug was split because of the different impact of the two issues.  CVE-2012-2140 continues to be tracked via this bug, while CVE-2012-2139 got a separate bug 891762.
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