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GLSA-200503-26 : Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17582

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-26 (Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow)

 Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages.
 Impact :

 An attacker can send an email containing a malicious non-ASCII header which, when replied to, would cause the program to crash, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the software.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.3' All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.3'

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?19b9ac9e

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200503-26

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17582

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200503-26.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 3/21/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:sylpheed, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:sylpheed-claws, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0667

GLSA: 200503-26