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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202006-12">
<title>GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in GNU Mailutils allowing privilege
escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">mailutils</product>
<announced>2020-06-13</announced>
<revised count="1">2020-06-13</revised>
<bug>700806</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-mail/mailutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.8</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">3.8</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including
an IMAP4 server (imap4d).
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>GNU Mailutils runs maidag by default with setuid root permissions.</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>An attacker can use this to write to arbitrary files as root.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All GNU Mailutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/mailutils-3.8"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18862">CVE-2019-18862</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-05-12T21:52:25Z">sam_c</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-06-13T01:51:38Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>
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