Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered when displaying messages with specially crafted attachments. sylpheed 2005-04-02 2005-04-02 86541 remote 1.0.4 1.0.4 1.0.4 1.0.4

Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.

Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle messages containing attachments with MIME-encoded filenames.

An attacker can send a malicious email message which, when displayed, would cause the program to crash, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the software.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.4"

All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.4"

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