metadata/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml

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<glsa id="200503-26">
  <title>Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered
    when replying to specially crafted messages.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sylpheed sylpheed-claws</product>
  <announced>March 20, 2005</announced>
  <revised>March 20, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>84056</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-client/sylpheed" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="mail-client/sylpheed-claws" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader.
    Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII
    characters in email headers when composing reply messages.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.3&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://sylpheed.good-day.net/#changes">Sylpheed ChangeLog</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0667">CAN-2005-0667</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:05:52 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:35:33 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:41:22 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>