Debian Security Advisory
DSA-906-1 sylpheed -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 22 Nov 2005
- Affected Packages:
- sylpheed
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 338436.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3354. - More information:
-
Colin Leroy discovered several buffer overflows in a number of importer routines in sylpheed, a light-weight e-mail client with GTK+, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The following matrix explains which versions fix this vulnerability
old stable (woody) stable (sarge) unstable (sid) sylpheed 0.7.4-4woody1 1.0.4-1sarge1 2.0.4-1 sylpheed-gtk1 n/a n/a 1.0.6-1 sylpheed-claws 0.7.4claws-3woody1 1.0.4-1sarge1 1.0.5-2 sylpheed-claws-gtk2 n/a n/a 1.9.100-1 We recommend that you upgrade your sylpheed package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed-doc_0.7.4-4woody1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.7.4-4woody1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed-i18n_1.0.4-1sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_1.0.4-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.