gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201708-02.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201708-02">
  <title>TNEF: Multiple vulnerabilities </title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TNEF, the worst of
    which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tnef</product>
  <announced>2017-08-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-08-17</revised>
  <bug>611426</bug>
  <bug>618658</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-mail/tnef" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.15</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.15</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>TNEF is a program for unpacking MIME attachments of type
      “application/ms-tnef”.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TNEF. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted
      MIME attachment of type “application/ms-tnef” using TNEF, possibly
      resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All TNEF users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-mail/tnef-1.4.15"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6307">CVE-2017-6307</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6308">CVE-2017-6308</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6309">CVE-2017-6309</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6310">CVE-2017-6310</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8911">CVE-2017-8911</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-05-21T07:12:51Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-08-17T03:12:51Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>