Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2014-12-16 CWE: CWE-78 Bugzilla: 1162783: CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 mailx: command execution flaw 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 (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844).
Find out more about CVE-2014-7844 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
| Base Score | 3.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (mailx) | RHSA-2014:1999 | 2014-12-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (mailx) | RHSA-2014:1999 | 2014-12-16 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | mailx | Will not fix |
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