cve-2005-2642
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-08-21 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 22:45
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in the mutt_decode_xbit function in Handler.c for Mutt 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly due to interactions with libiconv or gettext.
Impacted products
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