CVE-2014-7844
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2014-12-16 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
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).
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| 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 |
Errata information
| 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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