metadata/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200710-29">
  <title>Sylpheed, Claws Mail: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A format string error has been discovered in Sylpheed and Claws Mail,
    potentially leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">sylpheed claws-mail</product>
  <announced>October 25, 2007</announced>
  <revised>October 25, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>190104</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-client/sylpheed" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="mail-client/claws-mail" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Sylpheed and Claws Mail are two GTK based e-mail clients.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research discovered a format string error
    in the inc_put_error() function in file src/inc.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious POP
    server sending specially crafted replies, possibly resulting in the
    execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
    application.
    </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-2.4.5&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2958">CVE-2007-2958</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:54:19 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:57:28 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:46:46 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>