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Debian: CVE-2019-18849: tnef -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-18849: tnef -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/11/2019
Created
12/03/2019
Added
12/02/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tnef

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