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From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Sylpheed-claws format string bug, yet still sylpheed much better
 than windows

Georgi Guninski security advisory #61, 2003

Sylpheed-claws format string bug, yet still sylpheed much better than windows

Systems affected:
Sylpheed-claws 0.9.6 - 0.9.4
Fixed in CVS

Risk: Medium
Date: 22 October 2003

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Description:
There is an exploitable format string in sylpheed claws which may be
exploited by malicous SMTP server.

Details:
The problem seems in:	
send_message.c 
alertpanel_error_log(err_msg);
The format string is missing.

How to reproduce:
Create a test account with smtp server localhost:1234
Then do:
perl -e 'print "535 failed %x%x%n\r\n"' | nc -l -p 1234
Then send a message.
Actual result - sylpheed crashes.

Vendor status:
Notified on  Fri, 3 Oct 2003
It was fixed in CVS on the same day.

Fix:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/src/send_message.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19&diff_format=u
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/src/send_message.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.18 -r1.19
--- sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/src/send_message.c	2003/09/27 21:01:26	1.18
+++ sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/src/send_message.c	2003/10/03 17:39:39	1.19
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@
 	if (log_msg)
 		log_warning("%s\n", log_msg);
 	if (err_msg) {
-		alertpanel_error_log(err_msg);
+		alertpanel_error_log("%s", err_msg);
 		g_free(err_msg);
 	}
 }

Regards,
Georgi Guninski
http://www.guninski.com