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CVE-2005-2665

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Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in expires.c in Elm 2.5 PL5 through PL7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with a long Expires header.

References

http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.423056

http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.419306

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14613

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9670

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-755.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:186

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014745

http://secunia.com/advisories/17475

http://secunia.com/advisories/16554

http://secunia.com/advisories/16508

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112472951529964&w=2

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-08/0688.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-08-23

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.27779

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