[Secure-testing-team] Bug#862151: libetpan: CVE-2017-8825

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libetpan
Version: 1.6-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch security
Forwarded: https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libetpan.

CVE-2017-8825[0]:
| A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling
| component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A
| crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a
| Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8825
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8825
[1] https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274
[2] https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore