CVE-2010-5109

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the DecompressRTF function in ytnef.c in Yerase's TNEF Stream Reader allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TNEF file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 16, 17
Randall Hand Yerase'S Tnef Stream Reader: all versions

References

http://sourceforge.net/p/ytnef/bugs/13/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/11/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54484
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831322
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083804.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083853.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/ytnef/bugs/13/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/11/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54484
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831322
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083804.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083853.html

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