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Gentoo: GLSA 200505-20 High: Mailutils Remote Code Exploits

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2005
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The imap4d server and the mail utility from GNU Mailutils contain multiple vulnerabilities, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Mailutils: Multiple vulnerabilities in imap4d and mail Date: May 27, 2005 Bugs: #94053 ID: 200505-20

Synopsis ======= The imap4d server and the mail utility from GNU Mailutils contain multiple vulnerabilities, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server (imap4d) and a Mail User Agent (mail).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/mailutils < 0.6-r1 >= 0.6-r1
========== infamous41d discovered se...

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