CVE-2012-2140
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-07-18 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:26
Severity ?
Summary
The Mail gem before 2.4.3 for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) sendmail or (2) exim delivery.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080645.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080648.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080747.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48970Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/8
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/26/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759092
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816352
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/9beb079c70d236a5ad2e1ba95b2c977e55deb7af/CHANGELOG.rdoc
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/39b590ddb08f90ddbe445837359a2c8843e533d0Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/ac56f03bdfc30b379aeecd4ff317d08fdaa328c2Exploit, Patch
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