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Fedora 7 : sylpheed-2.3.1-5 (2007-1841)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 27736
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Ulf Harnhammar (Secunia Research) has discovered a format string vulnerability in sylpheed and claws-mail in inc_put_error() function in src/inc.c when displaying POP3 error reply.Problem can be exploited by malicious POP3 server via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the user is tricked into connecting to a malicious POP3 server.
Secunia advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/26550/
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.
Solution
Update the affected sylpheed and / or sylpheed-debuginfo packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 27736
File Name: fedora_2007-1841.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2007
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-2958