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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-13 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws: Buffer overflow in LDIF importer |
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Date: November 15, 2005 |
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Bugs: #111853 |
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ID: 200511-13 |
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Synopsis |
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws contain a buffer overflow vulnerability |
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which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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Background |
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Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-Claws |
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is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. They both support the import |
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of address books in LDIF (Lightweight Directory Interchange Format). |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 mail-client/sylpheed < 2.0.4 >= 2.0.4 |
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2 mail-client/sylpheed-claws < 1.0.5-r1 >= 1.0.5-r1 |
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
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Description |
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Colin Leroy reported buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Sylpheed and |
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Sylpheed-Claws. The LDIF importer uses a fixed length buffer to store |
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data of variable length. Two similar problems exist also in the Mutt |
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and Pine addressbook importers of Sylpheed-Claws. |
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Impact |
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By convincing a user to import a specially-crafted LDIF file into the |
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address book, a remote attacker could cause the program to crash, |
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potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the |
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privileges of the user running the software. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-2.0.4" |
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All Sylpheed-Claws users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose |
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">=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.5-r1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2005-3354 |
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http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3354 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200511-13.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |