CVE-2009-3721

HIGH

Evolution - Path Traversal and Buffer Overflow via TNEF Attachment Decoding

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521662
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 52.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
gnome/evolution
ytnef_project/ytnef
Published May 26, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026