USN-2340-1

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the formail tool incorrectly handled certain malformed mail headers. An attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / procmail

Package

Name: procmail
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/procmail@3.22-21ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.22-21ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.22-20

3.22-21

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.22-21ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "procmail"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2340-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3618",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}