1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200411-06 / MIME-tools |
| Release Date | November 02, 2004 |
| Latest Revision | May 22, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | low |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| dev-perl/MIME-tools | < 5.415 | >= 5.415 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #69181
MIME-tools doesn't handle empty MIME boundaries correctly. This may prevent some virus-scanning programs which use MIME-tools from detecting certain viruses.
MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME attachments.
MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty name (boundary="").
An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on some email virus-scanning programs using MIME-tools for attachment decoding.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All MIME-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.415" |