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Re: squeeze update of claws-mail?



On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 11:18 +0100, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> Hi Ben et al,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 01:48:47AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Hello dear maintainer(s),
> > 
> > the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> > currently open in the Squeeze version of claws-mail:
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8614
> 
> AFAICS that CVE is missing at least two more affected packages in
> squeeze: libsylph¹ and sylpheed², which unfortunately contains an
> embedded code copy (ECC) of the former.
> 
> Both are still affected on current sid versions³⁴ and upstream⁵, not
> sure whether that fact should be reflected on the same CVE. 
[...]

I decided they were unaffected, because the corresponding functions
allocate their own output buffer based on the input length.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of Linux kernel and LTS teams

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