GLSA 200504-02: Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display
Date:	04/02/2005
Bugs:	#86541
ID:	200504-02

Synopsis

Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered when displaying messages with specially crafted attachments.

Background

Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
mail-client/sylpheed	< 1.0.4	>= 1.0.4	All supported architectures
mail-client/sylpheed-claws	< 1.0.4	>= 1.0.4	All supported architectures

Description

Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle messages containing attachments with MIME-encoded filenames.

Impact

An attacker can send a malicious email message which, when displayed, 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.

Resolution

All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.4"

All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.4"

References

Sylpheed ChangeLog

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-02.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.