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sylpheed: buffer overflow

Package(s):sylpheed CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0667
Created:March 15, 2005 Updated:April 15, 2005
Description: 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.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:011 2005-04-15
Gentoo 200503-26 2005-03-20
Red Hat RHSA-2005:303-01 2005-03-18
Fedora FEDORA-2005-224 2005-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-211 2005-03-15
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