Gentoo: 200404-18 High: SSMTP Format String Exploit Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ssmtp Date: April 26, 2004 Bugs: #47918, #48435 ID: 200404-18

Synopsis ======= There are multiple format string vulnerabilities in the SSMTP package, which may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code with ssmtp's privileges (potentially root).
Background ========= SSMTP is a very simple mail transfer agent (MTA) that relays mail from the local machine to another SMTP host. It is not designed to function as a full mail server; its sole purpose is to relay mail.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/ssmtp <= 2.60.4-r2 >= 2.60.7
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