vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-776aaafc-939f-11ef-87ad-a8a15998b5cb (CVE-2019-18849): tnef -- An attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Oct 26, 2024 | Nov 9, 2024 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 26, 2024
Added
Nov 9, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
[email protected] reports: 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
freebsd-upgrade-package-tnef
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