Bug 1449081 (CVE-2017-8825) - CVE-2017-8825 libetpan: NULL pointer dereference inthe MIME handling component
Summary: CVE-2017-8825 libetpan: NULL pointer dereference inthe MIME handling component
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-8825
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1449082 1449083
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-09 08:15 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libetpan 1.8
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:12:02 UTC
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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.
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