Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0926 - Unspecified vulnerability in Sylpheed

047910
CVSS 5.1 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
high complexity
sylpheed
nessus

Summary

Buffer overflow in Sylpheed before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via attachments with MIME-encoded file names.

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_B1E8C81001D011DABC080001020EED82.NASL
descriptionSylpheed is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when displaying emails with attachments that have MIME-encoded file names. This could be used by a remote attacker to crash sylpheed potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running sylpheed.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id19354
published2005-08-01
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19354
titleFreeBSD : sylpheed -- MIME-encoded file name buffer overflow vulnerability (b1e8c810-01d0-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)
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
#
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# 
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# 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,
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#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(19354);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:37");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0926");
  script_bugtraq_id(12934);

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : sylpheed -- MIME-encoded file name buffer overflow vulnerability (b1e8c810-01d0-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)");
  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:
"Sylpheed is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when displaying emails
with attachments that have MIME-encoded file names. This could be used
by a remote attacker to crash sylpheed potentially allowing execution
of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running sylpheed."
  );
  # http://sylpheed.good-day.net/changelog.html.en
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ebf8d918"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b1e8c810-01d0-11da-bc08-0001020eed82.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7067143d"
  );
  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_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  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:"2005/03/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/01");
  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<1.0.4")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-gtk2<1.0.4")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"sylpheed-claws<1.0.4")) 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");