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Gentoo GLSA-200503-26 Normal: Sylpheed Message Reply Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Enhance Sylpheed iterations to address the message response overflow concern as specified in the advisory from Gentoo.
Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered when replying to specially crafted messages.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow Date: March 20, 2005 Bugs: #84056 ID: 200503-26

Synopsis ======= Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be triggered when replying to specially crafted messages.
Background ========= Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.
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