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 )
Gnome, please advise.
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.)
Arches, please test and mark stable mail-client/balsa-2.3.20. Target kewyords are "alpha amd64 ppc sparc x86"
ppc stable
x86 stable
alpha stable
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 - - - 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
amd64 stable
This is CVE-2007-5007.
sparc stable
glsa request filed.
GLSA 200710-17