CVE-2019-18849

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductTnef
PublishedNov 11, 2019
First seenNov 11, 2019

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
tnef_project tnefv < 1.4.181.4.18
fedoraproject fedora30, 31—
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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