Bug 1024647 (CVE-2013-4479)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4479 rubygem-sup: command injection flaw in content type handling
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	shreyankg
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Description Murray McAllister 2013-10-30 07:17:30 UTC

Sup is a mail client. joernchen of Phenoelit discovered a command injection flaw in the way the content type was handled. If a user opened a malicious mail message in Sup, it would lead to arbitrary command execution. This issue has been resolved in upstream versions 0.13.2.1 and 0.14.1.1.

References:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2013-October/004996.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728232
0.13.2.1 fix: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/commit/ca0302e0c716682d2de22e9136400c704cc93e42
0.14.1.1 fix: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/commit/27cdb4d483044b897e0f4fb09d1de028a94b9e11

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2013-10-30 07:19:40 UTC

Created rubygem-sup tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1024650]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-09-07 16:36:05 UTC

ruby-ncurses-1.3.1-16.fc23, rubygem-sup-0.21.0-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:30:49 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.