Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200710-17 (balsa)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200710-17. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200710-17 (balsa)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200710-17. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Balsa: Buffer overflow

Background Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME. Description Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the irfetchseq function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command CVE-2007-5007. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a...

CVE-2007-5007

CVE-2007-5007 concerns a stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function of Balsa (GNOME mail client) prior to version 2.3.20. A long IMAP FETCH response could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected host. Gentoo GLSA 200710-17 (and related advisories) specify t...

CVE-2006-5007

CVE-2006-5007 affects IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0, where the uucp component has an untrusted search path vulnerability that can allow local privilege escalation via a Trojan horse using uux. Affected package is bos.net.uucp; root cause relates to insecure path handling in the uucp utilities. Impact i...