NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libetpan package, versions *
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- published8 May 2017
- disclosed8 May 2017
Introduced: 8 May 2017
CVE-2017-8825 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 libetpan.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libetpan package and not the libetpan package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-8825
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8825
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/releases/tag/1.8