Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1204-1 ingo1 -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

02 Nov 2006

Affected Packages:

ingo1

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 396099.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5449.

More information:

It was discovered that the Ingo email filter rules manager performs insufficient escaping of user-provided data in created procmail rules files, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ingo1 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ingo1/ingo1_1.0.1-1sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ingo1/ingo1_1.0.1-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ingo1/ingo1_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ingo1/ingo1_1.0.1-1sarge1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.