Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sylpheed, Claws Mail: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-200710-29 First vendor Publication 2007-10-25
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-10-25
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A format string error has been discovered in Sylpheed and Claws Mail, potentially leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Sylpheed and Claws Mail are two GTK based e-mail clients.

Description

Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research discovered a format string error in the inc_put_error() function in file src/inc.c.

Impact

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.

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-2.4.5"

All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-2958 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2958

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for sylpheed FEDORA-2007-1841
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_1841_sylpheed_fc7.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for claws-mail FEDORA-2007-2009
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_2009_claws-mail_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200710-29 (sylpheed claws-mail)
File : nvt/glsa_200710_29.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: claws-mail, sylpheed-claws
File : nvt/freebsd_claws-mail.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40184 Sylpheed / Sylpheed-Claws src/inc.c inc_put_error Function POP3 Server Respon...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-1841.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-2009.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200710-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_claws-mail-4495.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_sylpheed-claws-4511.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-28 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_d9867f5054d011dcb80b0016179b2dd5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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