Summary
The remote host is missing an update to maildrop
announced via advisory DSA 1981-2.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201981-2
Insight
The latest DSA for maildrop introduced two regressions. The maildrop program stopped working when invoked as a non-root user, such as with postfix. Also, the lenny version dropped a dependency on the courier-authlib package.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-3+lenny3.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-11+etch2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.0-3.1.
For reference, the original advisory text is below.
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.
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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