Summary
The remote host is missing an update to maildrop
announced via advisory DSA 1981-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201981-1
Insight
Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that maildrop, a mail delivery agent with filtering abilities, is prone to a privilege escalation issue that grants a user root group privileges.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-3+lenny1.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-11+etch1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your maildrop packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-0301 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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