CVE-2005-0667: Altlinux Alt Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Sylpheed before 1.0.3 and other versions before 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with certain headers containing non-ASCII characters that are not properly handled when the user replies to the message.

Affected products

• Altlinux Alt Linux: version 2.3 only
• Gentoo Linux: any version
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Sylpheed Sylpheed: version 0.8.11 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; version 0.9.6 only; version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.8 only; …
• Sylpheed-Claws Sylpheed-Claws: version 1.0.2 only

Published 2005-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.