CVE-2020-16118: 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…

PriorityP335high7.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

2.05%

79.1th percentile

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	balsa	< balsa 2.6.0-1 (bookworm)	balsa 2.6.0-1 (bookworm)
gnome	balsa	< 2.6.0	2.6.0
gnome	balsa	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
gnome	balsa	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
gnome	balsa	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
gnome	balsa	>= 0 < 2.6.0-1	2.6.0-1
opensuse	backports_sle	—	—
opensuse	leap	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv7.5HIGH

vendor_debian7.5HIGH

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