Bug 66389 - Buffer overflow in versions < 0.8.11
Summary: Buffer overflow in versions < 0.8.11
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: libesmtp
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libes...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-06-09 19:13 UTC by Pawel Salek
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-04-03 20:34:01 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2003:109 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE : Updated balsa and mutt packages fix vulnerabilities 2003-04-03 05:00:00 UTC

Description Pawel Salek 2002-06-09 19:13:33 UTC 
There is a serious buffer overflow bug in all previous versions. This would
permit a malicious SMTP server to overwrite the stack and hence a carefully
crafted multiline response could download arbitrary code to be executed.

Visit the specified URL for more info. The fix (0.8.11) was released on 2002-03-06
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-02-12 11:52:19 UTC 
This is CAN-2002-1090 (cve.mitre.org).  libesmptd is only used by balsa in the
distribution.
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-02 23:09:49 UTC 
Still not on the ftp servers?
Comment 3 David Lawrence 2003-04-03 20:34:01 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-109.html
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