A bug in Usermin, a widely-used administration console for Unix and Linux, could allow an attacker to run malicious code via a specially-crafted email, according to security researchers. . . .
A bug in Usermin, a widely-used administration console for Unix and Linux, could allow an attacker to run malicious code via a specially-crafted email, according to security researchers.

Usermin allows users of Unix and Linux to administer their own accounts on a network via a Web-based interface, including reading email. The tool isn't included in Unix or Linux distributions by default, but is often used with Webmin, one of the most popular system administration tools, which ships with Linux distributions such as Suse, Mandrake and Gentoo. A separate, less serious bug affects both Webmin and Usermin, researchers said.

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