CVE-2019-18849
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.77%tnef - security update
Published: 11/11/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18849
Description
In tnef before 1.4.18, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/tneffrom 0, < 1.4.18-1
- Debian/tneffrom 0, < 1.4.9-1+deb8u4
- Debian/tneffrom 0, < 1.4.12-1.2+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |