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TITLE:
Sylpheed Message Reply Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14491

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14491/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sylpheed 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1576/
Sylpheed 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4747/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sylpheed, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling
of certain unspecified headers containing non-ASCII characters. This
may be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into
replying to a malicious message.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.0.3 and
1.9.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.3.
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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