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Gentoo: 202204-01 Critical: Mailutils Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2005
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The Gentoo GLSA 202112-05 outlines a moderate risk SQL injection vulnerability affecting Mailutils. Updating is advised to maintain system integrity.
GNU Mailutils is vulnerable to SQL command injection attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Mailutils: SQL Injection Date: June 06, 2005 Bugs: #94824 ID: 200506-02

Synopsis ======= GNU Mailutils is vulnerable to SQL command injection attacks.
Background ========= GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/mailutils < 0.6-r1 >= 0.6-r1
========== When GNU Mailutils is built with the "mysql" or "postgres" USE flag, the sql_escape_string function of the authentication module fails to properly escape the "\" character, rendering it vulnerable to a SQL command injection.
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