CVE-2010-0409

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h in GMime before 2.4.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via input data for a uuencode operation.

Affected products

GNOME Gmime: 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5 (+8)

References

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.14-2.4.15.diff.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.15.changes
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38459
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561457
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.14-2.4.15.diff.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.15.changes
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38459

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