CVE-2020-16118
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-29 17:58
Modified
2024-08-04 13:37
Severity ?
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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