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CVE-2007-5399

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in emlsr.dll in the EML reader in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView 10.3.0.0, as used by IBM Lotus Notes, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) To, (2) Cc, (3) Bcc, (4) From, (5) Date, (6) Subject, (7) Priority, (8) Importance, or (9) X-MSMail-Priority header; (10) a long string at the beginning of an RFC2047 encoded-word in a header; (11) a long text string in an RFC2047 encoded-word in a header; or (12) a long Subject header, related to creation of an associated filename.

Affected products

• Autonomy Keyview: 10.3.0.0
• IBM Lotus Notes: 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.0.2, 7.0.3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/28209
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28210
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-91/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-92/advisory/
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21298453
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490832/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490833/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28454
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019842
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1153
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1156
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41723

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