National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1251
Original release date:03/19/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. greylistclean.cron is not supplied in the exim packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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External Source: BID
Name: 17110
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: saexim-greylistclean-file-deletion(25286)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0941
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19225
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071