Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2642 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mutt 1.5.10

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
mutt
NVD
Published: 2005-08-23
Updated: 2008-09-05

Summary

Buffer overflow in the mutt_decode_xbit function in Handler.c for Mutt 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly due to interactions with libiconv or gettext.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mutt
1

Statements

contributorMark J Cox
lastmodified2006-08-30
organizationRed Hat
statementNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the Linux versions of Mutt.

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