PT-2003-1917 · Sylpheed · Sylpheed-Claws

Georgi Guninski · Published 2003-10-25 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2003-0852

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sylpheed-claws versions 0.9.4 through 0.9.6

Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the send message.c file. This vulnerability allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash of the sylpheed application via format strings in an error message.

Recommendations For Sylpheed-claws versions 0.9.4 through 0.9.6, consider restricting access to the send message.c function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0852

Affected Products

Sylpheed-Claws

References · 6

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/8877 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0852 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13508 · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/012542.html · Note
• http://guninski.com/sylph.html · Note
• http://sylpheed.good-day.net/#changes · Note