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CVE-2020-16118

high

Description

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/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-29

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00451