Bug 1449081 (CVE-2017-8825)

Summary:	CVE-2017-8825 libetpan: NULL pointer dereference inthe MIME handling component
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andreas.bierfert, ssorce
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libetpan 1.8	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1449082, 1449083
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-09 08:15:30 UTC

A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling
component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A
crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a
Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-09 08:15:58 UTC

Created libetpan tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1449082]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449083]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:12:02 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.