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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2805-1 sup-mail -- command injection

Date Reported:

27 Nov 2013

Affected Packages:

sup-mail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 728232.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4478, CVE-2013-4479.

More information:

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered two command injection flaws in Sup, a console-based email client. An attacker might execute arbitrary command if the user opens a maliciously crafted email.

• CVE-2013-4478

  Sup wrongly handled the filename of attachments.

• CVE-2013-4479

  Sup did not sanitize the content-type of attachments.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.11-2+nmu1+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sup-mail packages.