NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting mutt package, versions [,2.2.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MUTT-5891147
  • published11 Sept 2023
  • disclosed9 Sept 2023
  • creditChenyuan Mi

Introduced: 9 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-4875  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-475  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mutt to version 2.2.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the mutt_substrdup() method further resulting in either a memcpy onto NULL or a huge malloc call.

CVSS Scores

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