Fedora 7 : sylpheed-2.3.1-5 (2007-1841)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27736

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Ulf Harnhammar (Secunia Research) has discovered a format string vulnerability in sylpheed and claws-mail in inc_put_error() function in src/inc.c when displaying POP3 error reply.

Problem can be exploited by malicious POP3 server via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the user is tricked into connecting to a malicious POP3 server.

Secunia advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/26550/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected sylpheed and / or sylpheed-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?89e171cd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27736

File Name: fedora_2007-1841.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2958

FEDORA: 2007-1841

Secunia: 26550