PT-2017-18558 · Libetpan+3 · Libetpan+3

Perry E. Metzger · Published 2017-05-08 · Updated 2017-06-28 · CVE-2017-8825

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibEtPan versions prior to 1.8 MailCore versions prior to 1.8 MailCore 2 versions prior to 1.8

Description A null dereference issue has been found in the MIME handling component, which can cause a crash during the parsing of a Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses in the low-level/imf/mailimf.c file.

Recommendations For LibEtPan versions prior to 1.8, update to version 1.8 or later to resolve the issue. For MailCore versions prior to 1.8, update to version 1.8 or later to resolve the issue. For MailCore 2 versions prior to 1.8, update to version 1.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1756

CVE-2017-8825

MGASA-2017-0191

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10938-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Libetpan

Mailcore

Mailcore 2

References · 17

• https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8825 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0191.html · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-1756 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8825 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0191 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8825 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274 · Note
• https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/releases/tag/1.8 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/08/6 · Note