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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200710-17">
+ <title>Balsa: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Balsa is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for the user-assisted
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">balsa</product>
+ <announced>2007-10-16</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-10-16</revised>
+ <bug>193179</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="mail-client/balsa" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.3.20</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.20</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the
+ ir_fetch_seq() function when receiving a long response to a FETCH
+ command (CVE-2007-5007).
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious or
+ compromised IMAP server, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary
+ code with the rights of the user running Balsa.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Balsa users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=mail-client/balsa-2.3.20"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5007">CVE-2007-5007</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-09-26T14:01:38Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-09-26T14:01:46Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-10-08T00:14:17Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>