6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.026 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.3%
Sylpheed and Claws Mail are two GTK based e-mail clients.
Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research discovered a format string error in the inc_put_error() function in file src/inc.c.
A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious POP server sending specially crafted replies, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-2.4.5"
All Claws Mail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/claws-mail-3.0.0"
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gentoo | any | all | mail-client/sylpheed | <ย 2.4.5 | UNKNOWN |
Gentoo | any | all | mail-client/claws-mail | <ย 3.0.0 | UNKNOWN |