Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mailutils package, versions [,0.6.90)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MAILUTILS-2374224
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 May 2005

CVE-2005-1522  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mailutils to version 0.6.90 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The imap4d server for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows authenticated remote users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large range value in the FETCH command.

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