TITLE:
Sylpheed LDIF Import Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17492

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17492/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sylpheed 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6081/
Sylpheed 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4747/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sylpheed, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"ldif_get_line()" function in "ldif.c" when importing a LDIF file
into the address book. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution via a
specially crafted LDIF file with more than 2048 characters in a
single line.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is e.g. tricked into
importing a malicious LDIF file.

SOLUTION:
Update to the fixed versions.

Version 1.0.x:
Update to version 1.0.6.
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed/v1.0/

Version 2.0.x:
Update to version 2.0.4. 
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed/v2.0/

The vulnerability has also been fixed in development version 2.1.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/en/news.html

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