Linux/unix e-mail flaw leaves systems open to attack

Posted by tadelste on Aug 30, 2005 1:54 PM EDT
ComputerWorld; By Matthew Broersman
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Two serious security flaws have turned up in software widely distributed with Linux and Unix. The bugs affect Electronic Mail for Unix (Elm), a venerable e-mail client still used by many Linux and Unix systems administrators, and Mplayer, a cross-platform movie player that is one of the most popular of its kind on Linux. The Elm flaw involves a boundary error when the client reads an e-mail's "Expires" header. A specially crafted e-mail could exploit the bug to cause a buffer overflow and execute malicious code on a system, according to security researchers.

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Hands up the elm users! AnonymousCoward 1 1,384 Aug 31, 2005 10:19 AM

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