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Bug 734328 (CVE-2020-16094) - <mail-client/claws-mail-3.17.7: Denial of service (unbounded recursion) via IMAP folder structure (CVE-2020-16094)
Summary: <mail-client/claws-mail-3.17.7: Denial of service (unbounded recursion) via I...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2020-16094
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
Keywords: CC-ARCHES, STABLEREQ
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-07-28 21:43 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2021-01-26 00:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
mail-client/claws-mail-3.17.7
Runtime testing required: ---
nattka: sanity-check+

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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-07-28 21:43:52 UTC 
Description:
"In imap_scan_tree_recursive in Claws Mail through 3.17.6, a malicious IMAP server can trigger stack consumption because of unlimited recursion into subdirectories during a rebuild of the folder tree."
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-11-16 18:53:56 UTC 
Ready to stable?
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-11-17 21:03:29 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-11-18 09:54:30 UTC 
amd64 done

all arches done
Comment 4 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-11-18 09:54:44 UTC 
Please cleanup, thanks!
Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-11-18 10:32:20 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6a6b05206955fbc2ed8926c9b09f7cfdaca79b6b

commit 6a6b05206955fbc2ed8926c9b09f7cfdaca79b6b
Author:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-11-18 10:32:14 +0000
Commit:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-11-18 10:32:14 +0000

    mail-client/claws-mail: Security cleanup
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/734328
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.9, Repoman-3.0.2
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>

 mail-client/claws-mail/Manifest                    |   1 -
 mail-client/claws-mail/claws-mail-3.17.6-r1.ebuild | 215 ---------------------
 2 files changed, 216 deletions(-)