Elm frm Command Mail Subject Line Handling Remote Overflow

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1140

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.

Description

The remote host is running Elm 2.5.6 or older, which contains a buffer overflow which might be triggered remotely. To exploit it, an attacker would need to send a malicious email to a user of this hosts.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of Elm (available at http://www.instinct.org/elm).

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 1140

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:elm_development_group:elm

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0966

BID: 9430

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