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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3019-1 procmail -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Sep 2014

Affected Packages:

procmail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 704675, Bug 760443.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3618.

More information:

Boris pi Piwinger and Tavis Ormandy reported a heap overflow vulnerability in procmail's formail utility when processing specially-crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-20+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22-22.

We recommend that you upgrade your procmail packages.