CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2642
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-08-23
- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• mutt mutt 1.5.10
References
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379 comments.gmane.org
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408493 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408501 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16485 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014729 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14596 www.securityfocus.com
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379 comments.gmane.org
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408493 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408501 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16485 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014729 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14596 www.securityfocus.com