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Mutt <= 2.0.4 DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
3 years ago
Modified
Modified
3 years ago
Summary
Mutt is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
An attacker may send a sequence of semicolon characters in the RFC822 address fields, which will cause large memory consumption and render the mailbox unavailable.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Mutt through version 2.0.4.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 2.0.5 or later.