Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0667
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in Sylpheed before 1.0.3 and other versions before 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with certain headers containing non-ASCII characters that are not properly handled when the user replies to the message.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | Sylpheed
| 14 |
Application | 1 | |
OS | 2 | |
OS | 1 | |
OS | 9 |
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_F85361439BC411D9B8B3000A95BC6FAE.NASL description The Sylpheed website states : A buffer overflow which occurred when replying to a message with certain headers which contain non-ascii characters was fixed. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 19179 published 2005-07-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19179 title FreeBSD : sylpheed -- buffer overflow in header processing (f8536143-9bc4-11d9-b8b3-000a95bc6fae) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(19179); script_version("1.16"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:38"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0667"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : sylpheed -- buffer overflow in header processing (f8536143-9bc4-11d9-b8b3-000a95bc6fae)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The Sylpheed website states : A buffer overflow which occurred when replying to a message with certain headers which contain non-ascii characters was fixed." ); # http://sylpheed.good-day.net/index.cgi.en#changes script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e6911b70" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/f8536143-9bc4-11d9-b8b3-000a95bc6fae.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?36d8b8db" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:sylpheed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:sylpheed-claws"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:sylpheed-gtk2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/03/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/03/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed>=0.8.*<1.0.3")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed>=1.9.*<1.9.5")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-claws>=0.8.*<1.0.3")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-claws>=1.9.*<1.9.5")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-gtk2>=0.8.*<1.0.3")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-gtk2>=1.9.*<1.9.5")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2005-211.NASL description - Tue Mar 15 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.0.3-0.FC3 - New upstream release. - contains the possible buffer overflow issue. (#150688) CVE-2005-0667 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 19626 published 2005-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19626 title Fedora Core 3 : sylpheed-1.0.3-0.FC3 (2005-211) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2005-211. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(19626); script_version ("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:23"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-211"); script_name(english:"Fedora Core 3 : sylpheed-1.0.3-0.FC3 (2005-211)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - Tue Mar 15 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.0.3-0.FC3 - New upstream release. - contains the possible buffer overflow issue. (#150688) CVE-2005-0667 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2005-March/000762.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1144e8e6" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected sylpheed and / or sylpheed-debuginfo packages." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sylpheed-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/03/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/09/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 3.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC3", reference:"sylpheed-1.0.3-0.FC3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC3", reference:"sylpheed-debuginfo-1.0.3-0.FC3")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sylpheed / sylpheed-debuginfo"); }
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-303.NASL description An updated sylpheed package that fixes a buffer overflow issue is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Sylpheed is a GTK+ based fast email client. A buffer overflow bug has been found in the way Sylpheed handles non-ASCII characters in the header of a message to which a victim replies. A carefully crafted email message could potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17365 published 2005-03-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17365 title RHEL 2.1 : sylpheed (RHSA-2005:303) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:303. The text # itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(17365); script_version ("1.25"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:11"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0667"); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2005:303"); script_name(english:"RHEL 2.1 : sylpheed (RHSA-2005:303)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "An updated sylpheed package that fixes a buffer overflow issue is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Sylpheed is a GTK+ based fast email client. A buffer overflow bug has been found in the way Sylpheed handles non-ASCII characters in the header of a message to which a victim replies. A carefully crafted email message could potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine if they reply to such a message. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0667 to this issue. Users of Sylpheed should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch, and is not vulnerable to this issue." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-0667" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:303" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected sylpheed package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sylpheed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/03/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/03/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/03/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^2\.1([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 2.1", "Red Hat " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i386", cpu); yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo"); if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo)) { rhsa = "RHSA-2005:303"; yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa); if (!empty_or_null(yum_report)) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : yum_report ); exit(0); } else { audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa; audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message); } } else { flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL2.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"sylpheed-0.5.0-3.EL21.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sylpheed"); } }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2005-224.NASL description - Thu Mar 17 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> - 1.0.3-0.FC2 - New upstream release. - contains the possible buffer overflow issue. CVE-2005-0667 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18315 published 2005-05-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18315 title Fedora Core 2 : sylpheed-1.0.3-0.FC2 (2005-224) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-26.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-26 (Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow) Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages. Impact : An attacker can send an email containing a malicious non-ASCII header which, when replied to, would cause the program to crash, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the software. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17582 published 2005-03-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17582 title GLSA-200503-26 : Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow
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