What the vulnerability does

01Description

Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in yTNEF, and in Evolution's TNEF parser that is derived from yTNEF. A crafted email could cause these applications to write data in arbitrary locations on the filesystem, crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when decoding attachments.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 26, 2021 CVE published
August 7, 2024 Record updated