CVE-2017-8825 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-05-08

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:libetpan_project:libetpan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-17768	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00543.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d
https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274
https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/releases/tag/1.8

History

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Subscriptions

Libetpan Project Libetpan

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-08T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:48:22.222Z

Reserved: 2017-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8825

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-08T16:29:00.177

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8825

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-476

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