Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TNEF, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
Package | net-mail/tnef on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 1.4.15 |
Unaffected versions | >= 1.4.15 |
TNEF is a program for unpacking MIME attachments of type “application/ms-tnef”.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TNEF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted MIME attachment of type “application/ms-tnef” using TNEF, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All TNEF users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/tnef-1.4.15"