CVE-2007-5007
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function in balsa before 2.3.20 might allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a FETCH command.
02 Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function in balsa before 2.3.20 might allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a FETCH command.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.89% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-09-20 20:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-09-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 87ca4e6dc70b71eb98ca9f0897c410a39a15a03c5c65bad6cdadd0a62cb93b5c
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193179
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297581
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:019http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
- www.securityfocus.com25777http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25777
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366
- secunia.com26987http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
- mail.gnome.org[ANNOUNCE] 20070907 balsa-2.3.20 releasedhttp://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-September/msg00010.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3263http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3263
- secunia.com27272http://secunia.com/advisories/27272
- osvdb.org40585http://osvdb.org/40585
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200710-17http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-17.xml
- secunia.com26947http://secunia.com/advisories/26947
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- balsa Fixed in 2.3.20-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- balsa Fixed in 2.3.20-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- balsa Fixed in 2.3.20-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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