CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3242

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-06-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-06-27
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

Stack-based buffer overflow in the browse_get_namespace function in imap/browse.c of Mutt 1.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long namespaces received from the IMAP server.

Affected configurations

• mutt mutt 1.4.2 • mutt mutt 1.4.2.1

References