PT-2007-4255 · Sylpheed · Sylpheed-Claws+1

Published 2007-08-27 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2007-2958

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sylpheed version 2.4.4 Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) versions 1.9.100 through 2.10.0

Description The issue allows remote POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in crafted replies. This is due to a format string vulnerability in the inc put error function in src/inc.c.

Recommendations For Sylpheed version 2.4.4, update to a version that fixes the inc put error function issue. For Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) versions 1.9.100 through 2.10.0, update to a version that fixes the inc put error function issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the inc put error function in src/inc.c until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2958

Affected Products

Sylpheed

Sylpheed-Claws

References · 18

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00077.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2958 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-70/advisory · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26550 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-2958 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2958 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25430 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/40184 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2971 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26610 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36238 · Note