MGASA-2016-0008

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    MGASA-2016-0008

    Published: 12 Jan 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8614

    Summary: Updated claws-mail packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: no bounds checking on the output buffer in conv_jistoeuc, conv_euctojis, conv_sjistoeuc A Tails contributor found a vulnerability in claws-mail where in codeconv.c a function for japanese character set conversion called conv_jistoeuc() has no bounds checking on the output buffer which is created on the stack with alloca() (CVE-2015-8614).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0008.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17380, http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3557, https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8614

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: claws-mail

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/claws-mail?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.11.1-3.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High