cvelistv5 - CVE-2017-16844

CVE-2017-16844

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-11-16 15:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:35

Severity ?

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadbuf function in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail message because of a hardcoded realloc size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3618.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039844	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3269	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876511	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00019.html
cve@mitre.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4041	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039844	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3269	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876511	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00019.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4041	Third Party Advisory

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CVE-2017-16844

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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ghsa-4f62-c8fw-44pp

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