High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 26, 2021· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-3721
CVE-2009-3721
Description
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.
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Affected products
5- cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ytnef_project:ytnef:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- yTNEF/yTNEFdescription
Patches
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References
2- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-013.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
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