Bug 297581 (CVE-2007-5007)

Summary: CVE-2007-5007 balsa: IMAP server triggerred stack overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: pawsa
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-20 09:10:42 UTC
Description of problem:

A remote IMAP server can overflow a statically sized buffer on stack and
possible execute arbitrary code with privilegies of user running Balsa with a
long message name in response to FETCH command of IMAP protocol.

Additional info:

See URL for original Gnome Bugzilla entry which contains a patch.

Comment 2 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-20 09:21:52 UTC
The CVE identifier for the issue was requested.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-09-25 08:32:47 UTC
has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-09-26 20:03:41 UTC
has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-09 13:50:25 UTC
This issue did not affect version of balsa as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.1.