 
        | Release Date: | 2014-12-16 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? | 
A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844).
See more information about CVE-2004-2771 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 3.6 | 
| Vector String: | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N | 
| Version: | 2.0 | 
| Attack Vector: | Local | 
| Attack Complexity: | Low | 
| Authentication: | None | 
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial | 
| Integrity Impact: | Partial | 
| Availability Impact: | None | 
| Platform | Errata | Release Date | 
| Oracle Linux version 6 (mailx) | ELSA-2014-1999 | 2014-12-16 | 
| Oracle Linux version 7 (mailx) | ELSA-2014-1999 | 2014-12-16 | 
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (mailx) | OVMSA-2014-0086 | 2014-12-24 | 
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (mailx) | OVMSA-2014-0086 | 2014-12-24 | 
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