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sylpheed: format string vulnerability

Package(s):sylpheed CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2958
Created:August 28, 2007 Updated:October 26, 2007
Description: Ulf Harnhammar (Secunia Research) has discovered a format string vulnerability in sylpheed and claws-mail in inc_put_error() function in src/inc.c when displaying POP3 error reply. The problem can be exploited by malicious POP3 server via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers. See this Secunia advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200710-29 2007-10-25
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2009 2007-09-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1841 2007-08-27
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