CVE-2014-7844

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-12-16

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).

See more information about CVE-2014-7844 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3.6	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	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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