CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-4875

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 09, 2023 | Modified: Aug 29, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.7 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message in Mutt >1.5.2 <2.2.12

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
Mutt Mutt 1.5.2 (excluding) 2.2.12 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat mutt-5:2.0.7-3.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat mutt-5:2.2.6-2.el9 *
Mutt Ubuntu bionic *
Mutt Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Mutt Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Mutt Ubuntu focal *
Mutt Ubuntu jammy *
Mutt Ubuntu lunar *
Mutt Ubuntu mantic *
Mutt Ubuntu trusty *
Mutt Ubuntu upstream *
Mutt Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References