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.
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