<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200502-29"> <title>Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> The Cyrus IMAP Server is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities which could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">cyrus-imapd</product> <announced>2005-02-23</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>82404</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-mail/cyrus-imapd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.2.12</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.12</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. </p> </background> <description> <p> Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack buffer overflows have been found in fetchnews, the backend and imapd. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> An attacker, who could be an authenticated user or an admin of a peering news server, could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the Cyrus IMAP Server. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Cyrus IMAP Server users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=33723">Cyrus IMAP Announcement</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0546">CVE-2005-0546</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-18T10:42:26Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-19T20:45:06Z"> vorlon078 </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-23T12:49:07Z"> vorlon078 </metadata> </glsa>