CVE-2018-14360 — Out-of-bounds Write in Neomutt

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
MuttNeomuttDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJul 17
Latest updateJan 15

Description

An 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDneomutt/neomutt< 20180716
▶Debianneomutt/neomutt< 20180716+dfsg.1-1+3
▶Ubuntuneomutt/neomutt< 20171215+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1+3
▶Debianmutt/mutt< 1.9.1-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
neomutt vulnerabilities↗2025-01-15
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GHSA
GHSA-96qw-wpf6-h6f5: An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-14360: An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16↗2018-07-17
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OSV
CVE-2018-14360: An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16↗2018-07-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
NeoMutt vulnerabilities↗2025-01-15
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Debian
CVE-2018-14360: mutt - An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c...↗2018
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