CVE-2018-14360

HIGH

Description

An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.

References

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6296f7153f0c9d5e5cd3aaf08f9731e56621bdd3

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html

https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-07-17

Modified: 2018-09-12

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL