PT-2012-5449 · Claws Mail Team · Claws Mail

Jérôme Benoit · Published 2012-10-22 · Updated 2013-03-01 · CVE-2012-4507

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 Claws Mail version 3.8.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference, via a crafted email. This is related to the strchr function in procmime.c.

Recommendations For Claws Mail version 3.8.1, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as using the strchr function in procmime.c can lead to a denial of service. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4507

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10428-1

Affected Products

Claws Mail

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4507 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4507 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4507 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00064.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4507 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4507 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/09/1 · Patch
• http://thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2743 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4507 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4507 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55837 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862578 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/09/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/3 · Note