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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200511-13 (sylpheed sylpheed-claws)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Gentoo Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200511-13.

Insight

Insight

Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws contain a buffer overflow vulnerability which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Solution

All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/sylpheed-2.0.4' All Sylpheed-Claws users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.5-r1' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200511-13 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111853

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