CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-8825

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 08, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libetpan Libetpan_project * 1.7.2 (including)
Libetpan Ubuntu artful *
Libetpan Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libetpan Ubuntu trusty *
Libetpan Ubuntu upstream *
Libetpan Ubuntu xenial *
Libetpan Ubuntu yakkety *
Libetpan Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

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