CVE-2020-16117
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2020-07-29 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
Description
In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g., minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This is related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server.
See more information about CVE-2020-16117 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.9 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (evolution) | ELSA-2021-1752 | 2021-05-25 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (evolution-data-server) | ELSA-2021-1752 | 2021-05-25 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (evolution-ews) | ELSA-2021-1752 | 2021-05-25 |
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