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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2683

Original release date:05/15/2007

Last revised:11/06/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via "&" characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:3.5 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 1.5

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/04/2007)

Updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux are available from http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239890

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239890

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018066

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018066

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10543

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10543

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 34973

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/34973