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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200502-29">
+ <title>Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ The Cyrus IMAP Server is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities which
+ could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">cyrus-imapd</product>
+ <announced>February 23, 2005</announced>
+ <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
+ <bug>82404</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-mail/cyrus-imapd" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.2.12</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.12</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail
+ server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate
+ extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack buffer overflows
+ have been found in fetchnews, the backend and imapd.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker, who could be an authenticated user or an admin of a
+ peering news server, could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
+ arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the Cyrus IMAP
+ Server.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Cyrus IMAP Server users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&amp;msg=33723">Cyrus IMAP Announcement</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0546">CVE-2005-0546</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:42:26 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:45:06 +0000">
+ vorlon078
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:49:07 +0000">
+ vorlon078
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>