CVE-2019-18849

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18849
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-18849.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-18849
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-11-11T04:15:10.530Z
Modified
2026-02-23T08:17:14.087306Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/verdammelt/tnef

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/verdammelt/tnef
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

1.*
1.4.10
1.4.11
1.4.12
1.4.13
1.4.14
1.4.15
1.4.16
1.4.17
TNEF-1.*
TNEF-1.4.10
TNEF-1.4.11

Database specific

vanir_signatures
[
    {
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "197527520806726047393812687626000968189",
            "length": 3966.0
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/verdammelt/tnef/commit/8edd0e046736764c6decc8cd6e0e739438408f3e",
        "id": "CVE-2019-18849-0c99bc39",
        "target": {
            "function": "parse_cmdline",
            "file": "src/main.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "17390164876592905577376831902072063451",
                "109240640345055473013296847978297599553",
                "137785748995152623693204248295444430259",
                "155667681579234382799527855881423726826"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/verdammelt/tnef/commit/8edd0e046736764c6decc8cd6e0e739438408f3e",
        "id": "CVE-2019-18849-586681cd",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/main.c"
        }
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-18849.json"