CVE-2007-2683 (GCVE-0-2007-2683)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-05-15 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:49
VLAI?
Summary
Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via "&" characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018066 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2885 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/25408 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/34973 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25515 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-03… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24192 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1391 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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