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Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow...

High severity Unreviewed Published Apr 21, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 26, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 21, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(61st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2009-3721

GHSA ID

GHSA-2qr8-v7fq-qr4p

Source code

No known source code

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