DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1271

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2002-1271
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Upstream
Published
2002-11-12T05:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:27:20Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libmailtools-perl

Package

Name
libmailtools-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libmailtools-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.51

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libmailtools-perl

Package

Name
libmailtools-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libmailtools-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.51

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libmailtools-perl

Package

Name
libmailtools-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libmailtools-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.51

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libmailtools-perl

Package

Name
libmailtools-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libmailtools-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.51

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}