CVE-2007-5007

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function in balsa before 2.3.20 might allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a FETCH command.

Affected products

GNOME Balsa: 1.1.7, 1.2.4, 1.4, 1.4.3, 2.0.6, 2.0.10 (+34)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193179
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-September/msg00010.html
http://osvdb.org/40585
http://secunia.com/advisories/26947
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
http://secunia.com/advisories/27272
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-17.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25777
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3263
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297581

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