CVE-2007-2958

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2007-2958 · Published 27/08/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-2958 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting sylpheed-claws (sylpheed-claws), sylpheed (sylpheed).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sylpheed-claws sylpheed-claws	`= 1.9.100= 2.10.0`	No fix yet
sylpheed sylpheed	`= 2.4.4`	No fix yet

Description

Format string vulnerability in the inc_put_error function in src/inc.c in Sylpheed 2.4.4, and Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) 1.9.100 and 2.10.0, allows remote POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in crafted replies.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
osvdb.org/40184
secunia.com/advisories/26550 · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/26610
secunia.com/advisories/27229
secunia.com/advisories/27379
secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-70/advisory · Patch
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
securityfocus.com/bid/25430
vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2971
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36238
redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00077.html

More vulnerabilities in sylpheed-claws

See all →

Running one of these products? Scan your site to see whether it exposes a vulnerable version.

Scan my site free