[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: bsd-mailx-8.1.2-5.el6
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 26 20:13:04 UTC 2015
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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-0193
2015-01-09 19:29:58
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Name : bsd-mailx
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 8.1.2
Release : 5.el6
URL : http://www.openbsd.org/
Summary : Simple mail user agent
Description :
The bsd-mailx package installs the /bin/mail program, which is used to
send quick email messages (i.e., without opening up a full-featured
mail user agent). Mail is often used in shell scripts.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2004-2771, CVE-2014-7844
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1162783 - CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 mailx: command execution flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162783
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update bsd-mailx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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