CVE-2018-14360

Summary

CVECVE-2018-14360
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-17 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-19 17:17:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Neomutt Neomutt All All All All
Application Neomutt Neomutt All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 1455-1] mutt security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Release 2018-07-16 - NeoMutt MISC neomutt.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4277-1 mutt DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Set length modifiers for group and desc · neomutt/neomutt@6296f71 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690595 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mutt/neomutt (fe12ef83-8b47-11e8-96cc-001a4a7ec6be)
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