DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18849

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18849
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18849.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18849
Upstream
Published
2019-11-11T04:15:10.530Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:01:08.905530Z
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

Debian:11 / tnef

Package

Name
tnef
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tnef?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.18-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / tnef

Package

Name
tnef
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tnef?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.18-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / tnef

Package

Name
tnef
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tnef?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.18-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / tnef

Package

Name
tnef
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tnef?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.18-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}