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%
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-1841.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(27736);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-2958");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-1841");
script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"26550");
script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : sylpheed-2.3.1-5 (2007-1841)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"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."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-August/003426.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?89e171cd"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected sylpheed and / or sylpheed-debuginfo packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/08/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 7.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"sylpheed-2.3.1-5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"sylpheed-debuginfo-2.3.1-5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sylpheed / sylpheed-debuginfo");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | sylpheed | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed |
fedoraproject | fedora | sylpheed-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora | 7 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7 |