metadata/glsa/glsa-200411-06.xml

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<glsa id="200411-06">
  <title>MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion</title>
  <synopsis>
    MIME-tools doesn't handle empty MIME boundaries correctly. This may prevent
    some virus-scanning programs which use MIME-tools from detecting certain
    viruses.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">MIME-tools</product>
  <announced>November 02, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>69181</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-perl/MIME-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.415</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.415</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME
    attachments.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty
    name (boundary="").
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on
    some email virus-scanning programs using MIME-tools for attachment
    decoding.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MIME-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.415&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2004-October/024959.html">MIMEDefang announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1098">CVE-2004-1098</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue,  2 Nov 2004 13:33:38 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue,  2 Nov 2004 13:34:00 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue,  2 Nov 2004 17:50:24 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>