CVE-2007-2958

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the inc_put_error function in src/inc.c in Sylpheed 2.4.4, and Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) 1.9.100 and 2.10.0, allows remote POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in crafted replies.

Affected products

Sylpheed: 2.4.4
Sylpheed-Claws: 1.9.100, 2.10.0

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190104
http://osvdb.org/40184
http://secunia.com/advisories/26550
http://secunia.com/advisories/26610
http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27379
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-70/advisory/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25430
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2971
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254121

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