CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3721
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in yTNEF, and in Evolution's TNEF parser that is derived from yTNEF. A crafted email could cause these applications to write data in arbitrary locations on the filesystem, crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when decoding attachments.
Affected configurations
• gnome evolution
• ytnef project ytnef
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521662 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521662 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory