On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:21:35 +0200
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Package: sylpheed-claws
> Version: 1.0.5-5.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: security
> 
> Hi,
> a CVE had been issued against this package:
> CVE-2007-2958[0]:
> Format string vulnerability in the inc_put_error function in src/inc.c in
> Sylpheed 2.4.4, and Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) 1.9.100 and 2.10.0, allows
> remote POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers
> in crafted replies.
> 
> If you fix this issue include the CVE id into the changelog.
> 
> The sylpheed package is not affected for unstable and testing. (2.4.5
> fixes it). A patch can be found on:
> http://www.colino.net/claws-mail/getpatchset.php3?ver=2.10.0cvs153
> 
> Since the attacker will need to modify a pop3 server which then is used by
> the victim this issue is not really critical.
> 
> [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2958


  Please do the NMU Nico.

  Thanks in advance,
-- 
 Ricardo Mones
 http://people.debian.org/~mones
 «This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -- William Shakespeare, 
 "The Merchant of Venice"»

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