Stefan Esser has discovered a vulnerability in neon, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ne_rfc1036_parse()" function when parsing date strings. This can be exploited to cause a heap overflow by supplying a specially crafted date string.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code via applications linked against neon and using the vulnerable functionality.

The vulnerability affects version 0.24.5 and prior.

Solution
Update to version 0.24.6:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Stefan Esser, e-matters.

Original Advisory
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/062004.html

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