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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8793

OpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files (e.g., on some Linux distributions) because of a combination of an untrusted search...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

OpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files (e.g., on some Linux distributions) because of a combination of an untrusted search path in makemap.c and race conditions in the offline functionality in smtpd.c.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 opensmtpd

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.4p1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 opensmtpd

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.4p1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 opensmtpd

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.6.4p1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org