Published:2006/01/31  Last Updated:2008/05/21

JVN#89344424
Multiple email clients vulnerable in handling an attachement inapropriately

Overview

Some email clients contain a vulnerability which may crash themselves as they do not properly handle an attached file with an particular file name.

Products Affected

  • For more information, refer to the vendors' websites

Description

Impact

Actual impact could differ depending on the email clients though, email clients may crash when hadling an attached file with a particular file name. Other possible impacts could be an attached file not being saved or hanged up while in the saving process, or an error message being displayed on the application related to the attached file.

Solution

Vendor Status

Vendor Status Last Update Vendor Notes
Edcom Inc. Not Vulnerable 2006/01/31
Orangesoft Inc. Not Vulnerable 2006/01/31
Saitoh Kikaku Not Vulnerable 2006/01/31
Pochy project team Unknown 2006/01/31
JustSystems Corporation Not Vulnerable 2006/02/20
FUJITSU LIMITED Vulnerable 2007/03/15
Yokogawa Electric Corporation Not Vulnerable, investigating 2006/02/28
Allied Telesis K.K. Not Vulnerable 2006/03/10
Hitachi Vulnerable 2006/04/27
RICOH COMPANY, LTD. Not Vulnerable 2006/05/10

References

JPCERT/CC Addendum

Credit

Yosuke Hasegawa reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the vendors under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

Other Information

JPCERT Alert
JPCERT Reports
CERT Advisory
CPNI Advisory
TRnotes
CVE
JVN iPedia JVNDB-2006-000602

Update History