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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200411-06">
+ <title>MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ MIME-tools doesn't handle empty MIME boundaries correctly. This may prevent
+ some virus-scanning programs which use MIME-tools from detecting certain
+ viruses.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">MIME-tools</product>
+ <announced>2004-11-02</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+ <bug>69181</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-perl/MIME-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.415</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.415</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME
+ attachments.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty
+ name (boundary="").
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on
+ some email virus-scanning programs using MIME-tools for attachment
+ decoding.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All MIME-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.415"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2004-October/024959.html">MIMEDefang announcement</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1098">CVE-2004-1098</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-11-02T13:33:38Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-11-02T13:34:00Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-11-02T17:50:24Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>