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CVE-2020-16118

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Date: July 29, 2020

In GNOME Balsa before 2.6.0, a malicious server operator or man in the middle can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and client crash by sending a PREAUTH response to imap_mbox_connect in libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c.

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Related Resources (8)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16118
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16118
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16118
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16118

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Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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