CVE-2020-16118

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Balsa
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 July 2020

Summary

In GNOME Balsa before 2.6.0, a malicious server operator or man in the middle can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and client crash by sending a PREAUTH response to imap_mbox_connect in libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23
x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1...
x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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