CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0140

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-03-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.0 and possibly earlier versions, 1.5.x up to 1.5.3, and other programs that use Mutt code such as Balsa before 2.0.10, allows a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted folder.

Affected configurations

• mutt mutt 1.3.12 • mutt mutt 1.3.16 • mutt mutt 1.3.17 • mutt mutt 1.3.22 • mutt mutt 1.3.24 • mutt mutt 1.3.25 • mutt mutt 1.3.27 • mutt mutt 1.4.0 • mutt mutt 1.5.3

References