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masqmail: buffer overflow

Package(s):masqmail CVE #(s):CAN-2002-1279
Created:November 12, 2002 Updated:November 13, 2002
Description: A set of buffer overflows have been discovered in masqmail, a mail transport agent for hosts without a permanent Internet connection. In addition to this privileges were dropped only after reading a user supplied configuration file. Together this could be exploited to gain unauthorized root access to the machine on which masqmail is installed.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-194-1 2002-11-12
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