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DEBIAN-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 PRE...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 balsa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.6.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 balsa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.6.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 balsa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.6.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org