CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16118
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnome balsa (< 2.6.0)
• opensuse backports sle 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23 Exploit, Third Party Advisory