gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200911-03.xml

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<glsa id="200911-03">
  <title>UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the UW IMAP toolkit and the
    c-client library, the worst of which leading to the execution of arbitrary
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">c-client uw-imap</product>
  <announced>November 25, 2009</announced>
  <revised>November 25, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>245425</bug>
  <bug>252567</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/c-client" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2007e</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2007e</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-mail/uw-imap" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2007e</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2007e</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The UW IMAP toolkit is a daemon for the IMAP and POP3 network mail
    protocols. The c-client library provides an API for IMAP, POP3 and
    other protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Aron Andersson and Jan Sahlin of Bitsec reported boundary errors in
    the "tmail" and "dmail" utilities when processing overly long mailbox
    names, leading to stack-based buffer overflows (CVE-2008-5005).</li>
    <li>An error in smtp.c in the c-client library was found, leading to a
    NULL pointer dereference vulnerability (CVE-2008-5006).</li>
    <li>Ludwig
    Nussel reported an off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char()
    function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the c-client library, as used
    by the UW IMAP toolkit (CVE-2008-5514).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send an e-mail to a destination mailbox name
    composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string,
    possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. A local attacker
    could gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument to
    the tmail or dmail program. Furthermore, a remote attacker could send a
    specially crafted mail message to the UW IMAP toolkit or another daemon
    using the c-client library, leading to a Denial of Service. A remote
    SMTP server could respond to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP
    connection instead of the expected 221 response code, possibly leading
    to a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All c-client library users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-libs/c-client-2007e&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All UW IMAP toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-mail/uw-imap-2007e&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5005">CVE-2008-5005</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5006">CVE-2008-5006</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5514">CVE-2008-5514</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:17:18 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:27:25 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:23:47 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>