*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***

Public security bug reported:

References:
DSA-1501-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1501)

Quoting:
"Tobias Gruetzmacher discovered that a Debian-provided CRON script in dspam,
a statistical spam filter, included a database password on the command line
when using the MySQL backend. This allowed a local attacker to read the
contents of the dspam database, such as emails."

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: debian
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Visibility changed to: Public

** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-
bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-6418

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #448519
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448519

** Also affects: debian via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448519
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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[dspam] [CVE-2007-6418] programming error leading to information disclosure
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195691
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