CVE-2005-0100

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.

Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

GNU

First reported 20 years ago

2005-02-07 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-19 15:31:00

Affected Software

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs 21.3

21.3

GNU XEmacs

References

20050207 [USN-76-1] Emacs vulnerability

DSA-670

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-671

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-685

Patch, Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2005:038

RHSA-2005:110

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2005:112

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2005:133

Patch, Vendor Advisory

FLSA-2006:152898

12462

xemacs-movemail-format-string(19246)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9408

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