CVE-2010-0409 (GCVE-0-2010-0409)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-02-08 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:45
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h in GMime before 2.4.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via input data for a uuencode operation.
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CWE
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2010-02-03 00:00
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