Bug 193179 – mail-client/balsa < 2.3.20 ir_fetch_seq() Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2007-5007)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-09-20 13:23:33 UTC]

Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in balsa.

According to RedHat:
  A remote IMAP server can overflow a statically sized buffer on stack
  and possible execute arbitrary code with privilegies of user running
  Balsa with a long message name in response to FETCH command of IMAP
  protocol. ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/297581 )

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-09-20 13:25:26 UTC]

Gnome, please advise.

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-09-20 15:58:58 UTC]

I've bumped to balsa 2.3.20.  It seems to work in my minimal testing.  (No one in the gnome herd actually uses balsa a their mail client.)

[Comment 3 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-09-20 16:50:47 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable mail-client/balsa-2.3.20.
Target kewyords are "alpha amd64 ppc sparc x86"

[Comment 4 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2007-09-20 18:22:23 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 5 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-09-21 08:20:43 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 6 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-09-21 16:24:34 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 7 Angelo Arrifano (RETIRED) 2007-09-22 18:04:45 UTC]

 mail-client/balsa-2.3.20  USE="crypt gtkspell libnotify pcre ssl -debug -doc -gtkhtml -kerberos -ldap -sqlite -xface"

- Emerges on AMD64
- Sent/received mail over a POP/SMTP server. OK


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Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -msse3 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -msse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr emerald ffmpeg firefox fortran gdbm gif glade glib glitz gtk gtkspell hal iconv insecure-savers isdnlog jpeg libnotify midi mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre png pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream svg syslog tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis xcomposite xorg xosd xscreensaver xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="xosd" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia none"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 8 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2007-09-22 18:27:28 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 9 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-09-23 13:29:20 UTC]

This is CVE-2007-5007.

[Comment 10 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-09-25 17:49:23 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 11 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-09-26 14:02:16 UTC]

glsa request filed.

[Comment 12 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2007-10-18 22:44:19 UTC]

GLSA 200710-17