Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2002-1271 (2002-11-12)

The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.

NAME

Mail::Util - mail utility functions

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::Util qw( ... );

DESCRIPTION

This package provides several mail related utility functions. Any function required must by explicitly listed on the use line to be exported into the calling package.

read_mbox( $file )

Read $file, a binmail mailbox file, and return a list of references. Each reference is a reference to an array containg one message.

maildomain()

Attempt to determine the current uers mail domain string via the following methods

Look for a sendmail.cf file and extract DH parameter
Look for a smail config file and usr the first host defined in hostname(s)
Try an SMTP connect (if Net::SMTP exists) first to mailhost then localhost
Use value from Net::Domain::domainname (if Net::Domain exists)

mailaddress()

Return a guess at the current users mail address. The user can force the return value by setting $ENV{MAILADDRESS}

AUTHOR

Graham Barr.

Maintained by Mark Overmeer <mailtools@overmeer.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.