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log2mail: buffer overflow

Package(s):log2mail CVE #(s):
Created:November 6, 2002 Updated:November 6, 2002
Description: Enrico Zini discovered a buffer overflow in log2mail, a daemon for watching logfiles and sending lines with matching patterns via mail. The log2mail daemon is started upon system boot and runs as root. A specially crafted (remote) log message could overflow a static buffer, potentially leaving log2mail to execute arbitrary code as root.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-186-1 2002-11-01
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