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sylpheed -- message reply buffer overflow vulnerability

Affected packages
sylpheed < 1.0.4

Details

VuXML ID 9236ec86-a53e-11d9-b004-00065bd5b0b6
Discovery 2005-03-07
Entry 2005-04-04

A vulnerability has been reported in Sylpheed, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of certain unspecified headers containing non-ASCII characters. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into replying to a malicious message.

References

CVE Name CAN-2005-0667
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/14491