Sylpheed is a GTK+ based fast email client.
A buffer overflow bug has been found in the way Sylpheed handles non-ASCII
characters in the header of a message to which a victim replies. A
carefully crafted email message could potentially allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code on a victim’s machine if they reply to such a
message. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CAN-2005-0667 to this issue.
Users of Sylpheed should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch, and is not vulnerable to this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | i386 | sylpheed | < 0.5.0-3.EL21.1 | sylpheed-0.5.0-3.EL21.1.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | sylpheed | < 0.5.0-3.EL21.1 | sylpheed-0.5.0-3.EL21.1.ia64.rpm |