CVE-2009-3721 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521662 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8