CVE-2003-0140

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.0 and possibly earlier versions, 1.5.x up to 1.5.3, and other programs that use Mutt code such as Balsa before 2.0.10, allows a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted folder.

Affected products

mutt: 1.3.12, 1.3.16, 1.3.17, 1.3.22, 1.3.24, 1.3.25 (+3)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000626
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000630
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104817995421439&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104818814931378&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104852190605988&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105171507629573&w=2
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=310&idxseccion=10
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-268
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-19.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:041
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_020_mutt.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-109.html

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