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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3452-1 claws-mail -- security update

Date Reported:

23 Jan 2016

Affected Packages:

claws-mail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8614.

More information:

DrWhax of the Tails project reported that Claws Mail is missing range checks in some text conversion functions. A remote attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary code under the account of a user that receives a message from them using Claws Mail.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.1-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.11.1-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your claws-mail packages.