GNU Mailutils: Privilege escalation — GLSA 202006-12

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Mailutils allowing privilege escalation.

Package	net-mail/mailutils on all architectures
Affected versions	< 3.8
Unaffected versions	>= 3.8

The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server (imap4d).

GNU Mailutils runs maidag by default with setuid root permissions.

An attacker can use this to write to arbitrary files as root.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All GNU Mailutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/mailutils-3.8"

Release date
June 13, 2020

Latest revision
June 13, 2020: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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