Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libmailtools-perl announced via advisory DSA 386-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20386-1
Insight
The SuSE security team discovered during an audit that the Mail::Mailer module, a Perl module used for sending email, whereby potentially untrusted input is passed to a program such as mailx, which may interpret certain escape sequences as commands to be executed.
This bug has been fixed by removing support for programs such as mailx as a transport for sending mail. Instead, alternative mechanisms are used.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.44-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your libmailtools-perl package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2002-1271 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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