Upstream information

CVE-2020-16118 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	7.5	5.3
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	Low	Low
Privileges Required	None	None
User Interaction	None	None
Scope	Unchanged	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	High	Low
CVSSv3 Version	3.1	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1174711 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2020:1207-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
openSUSE-SU-2020:1230-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`balsa >= 2.5.5-bp151.4.3.1` `balsa-lang >= 2.5.5-bp151.4.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1230
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`balsa >= 2.5.5-lp151.3.3.1` `balsa-lang >= 2.5.5-lp151.3.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1207

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jul 30 00:03:40 2020
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:28:31 2023