CVE-2005-0546

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Cyrus IMAPd before 2.2.11 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an off-by-one error in the imapd annotate extension, (2) an off-by-one error in "cached header handling," (3) a stack-based buffer overflow in fetchnews, or (4) a stack-based buffer overflow in imapd.

Affected products

Cyrus Imapd: 2.0.17, 2.1.16, 2.1.17, 2.1.18, 2.2.10

References

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=33723
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82404
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000937
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110972236203397&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14383
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-29.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013278
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:051
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-408.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430294/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12636
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10674

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