CVE-2002-0001

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0001
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-02-27 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionVulnerability in RFC822 address parser in mutt before 1.2.5.1 and mutt 1.3.x before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an improperly terminated comment or phrase in the address list.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mutt Mutt All All All All
Application Mutt Mutt All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-002.0.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com
SecurityFocus HOME Advisories: New mutt packages available af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:04.mutt.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-096-2 mutt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch
mutt 1.2.5.1/1.3.25 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mutt.org
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch
'[Announce] SECURITY: mutt-1.2.5.1 and mutt-1.3.25 released.' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
Mutt Address Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ISS X-Force Database: mutt-address-handling-bo (7759): Mutt address handling buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net
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