The strchr function in procmime.c in Claws Mail (aka claws-mail) 3.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted email.

A denial of service attack (NULL ptr dereference) in claws mail was fixed.

Fixes a NULL pointer crash.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
74785	openSUSE Security Update : claws-mail (openSUSE-SU-2012:1374-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
62840	Fedora 18 : claws-mail-3.8.1-3.fc18 (2012-16689)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62827	Fedora 16 : claws-mail-3.8.1-3.fc16 (2012-16772)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62826	Fedora 17 : claws-mail-3.8.1-3.fc17 (2012-16753)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-4507

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium