TNEF: Multiple vulnerabilities

TNEF: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TNEF, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. tnef 2017-08-17 2017-08-17 611426 618658 remote 1.4.15 1.4.15

TNEF is a program for unpacking MIME attachments of type “application/ms-tnef”.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TNEF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted MIME attachment of type “application/ms-tnef” using TNEF, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All TNEF users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/tnef-1.4.15"

CVE-2017-6307 CVE-2017-6308 CVE-2017-6309 CVE-2017-6310 CVE-2017-8911 BlueKnight whissi