ALAS-2015-467

A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters and the direct command execution functionality. (CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844)

Note: Applications using mailx to send email to addresses obtained from untrusted sources will still remain vulnerable to other attacks if they accept email addresses which start with "-" (so that they can be confused with mailx options). To counteract this issue, this update also introduces the "--" option, which will treat the remaining command line arguments as email addresses.

i686:
    mailx-12.4-8.8.amzn1.i686
    mailx-debuginfo-12.4-8.8.amzn1.i686

src:
    mailx-12.4-8.8.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    mailx-debuginfo-12.4-8.8.amzn1.x86_64
    mailx-12.4-8.8.amzn1.x86_64