CVE-2018-14359

An issue was discovered in Mutt before 1.10.1 and NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. They have a buffer overflow via base64 data.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

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CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

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CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://neomutt.org/2018/07/16/release	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/3d9028fec8f4d08db2251096307c0bbbebce669a	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/6f163e07ae68654d7ac5268cbb7565f6df79ad85	Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.mutt.org/news.html	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-2/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-1/	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00001.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4277	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3719-3/	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-07	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:neomutt:neomutt::::::::

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::esm:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

Information

Published : 2018-07-17 10:29

Updated : 2020-05-19 10:13

NVD link : CVE-2018-14359

Mitre link : CVE-2018-14359

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-120

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Products Affected

debian

debian_linux

canonical

ubuntu_linux

neomutt

neomutt

mutt

mutt

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