Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3798-1 tnef -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 01 Mar 2017
- Affected Packages:
- tnef
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 856117.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6307, CVE-2017-6308, CVE-2017-6309, CVE-2017-6310. - More information:
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Eric Sesterhenn, from X41 D-Sec GmbH, discovered several vulnerabilities in tnef, a tool used to unpack MIME attachments of type
application/ms-tnef
. Multiple heap overflows, type confusions and out of bound reads and writes could be exploited by tricking a user into opening a malicious attachment. This would result in denial of service via application crash, or potential arbitrary code execution.For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.9-1+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tnef packages.