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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3694 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:38:30.319Z

Reserved: 2009-10-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-3721

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-26T22:15:07.697

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:08:03.027

Link: CVE-2009-3721

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-09-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3721 - Bugzilla

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