CVE-2009-3887: Path Traversal
First published: Mon Sep 07 2009(Updated: )
Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in yTNEF, and in Evolution's TNEF parser that is derived from yTNEF. A crafted email could cause these applications to write data in arbitrary locations on the filesystem, crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when decoding attachments.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ytnef Project Ytnef | ||
| debian/ytnef |
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Reference Links
- https://www.akitasecurity.nl/advisory.php?id=AK20090601
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3887
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-3887
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-3887
- http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3887 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3887
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521662
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2009-3887.json
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html
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