Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in netqmail, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Announced

2020-07-26

Revised

2020-07-26

Access

local, remote

Bugs

#721566

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-01

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
mail-mta/netqmail	*	< 1.06-r13	>= 1.06-r13

Background

qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in netqmail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

In the default configuration, these vulnerabilities are only local. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All netqmail users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-mta/netqmail-1.06-r13"

References

• CVE-2005-1513
• CVE-2005-1514
• CVE-2005-1515