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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18849

In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat app...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 tnef

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4.18-1"}]}]

Debian:13 tnef

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4.18-1"}]}]

Debian:14 tnef

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4.18-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org