USN-4615-1: Yerase’s TNEF vulnerabilities

Publication date

3 November 2020

Overview

Yerase’s TNEF could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Releases


Packages

  • libytnef - Yerases TNEF Stream Reader library

Details

It was discovered that Yerase’s TNEF had null pointer dereferences, infinite
loop, buffer overflow, out of bounds reads, directory traversal issues and
other vulnerabilities. An attacker could use those issues to cause a crash
and consequently a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6298, CVE-2017-6299,
CVE-2017-6300, CVE-2017-6301, CVE-2017-6302, CVE-2017-6303, CVE-2017-6304,
CVE-2017-6305, CVE-2017-6306, CVE-2017-6800, CVE-2017-6801, CVE-2017-6802)

It was discovered that Yerase’s TNEF had null pointer dereferences, infinite
loop, buffer overflow, out of bounds reads, directory traversal issues and
other vulnerabilities. An attacker could use those issues to cause a crash
and consequently a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6298, CVE-2017-6299,
CVE-2017-6300, CVE-2017-6301, CVE-2017-6302, CVE-2017-6303, CVE-2017-6304,
CVE-2017-6305, CVE-2017-6306, CVE-2017-6800, CVE-2017-6801, CVE-2017-6802)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial libytnef0 –  1.5-9ubuntu0.1

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