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Sylpheed Message Reply Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14491
Release Date: 2005-03-07
Last Update: 2005-03-10
Popularity: 9,032 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sylpheed 0.x
Sylpheed 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sylpheed, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of certain unspecified headers containing non-ASCII characters. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into replying to a malicious message.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.0.3 and 1.9.5.

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