PT-2005-2514 · Gnu · Gnu Mailutils

Infamous41Md · Published 2005-05-26 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-1521

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Mailutils versions 0.5 through 0.6.89

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the fetch io function of the imap4d server, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through a partial message request with a large value in the END parameter, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations For GNU Mailutils versions 0.5 through 0.6.89, update to version 0.6.90 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1521

DSA-732-1

Affected Products

Gnu Mailutils

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1521 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-732 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13763 · Patch
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=248&type=vulnerabilities · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-1521 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1521 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15442 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1521 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014052 · Note