CVE-2010-0409
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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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
- 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
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.