balsa: IMAP server triggerred stack overflow
Published Sep 20, 2007
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.89%
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function in balsa before 2.3.20 might allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a FETCH command.
Affected products
No data.
- 1.1.7
- 1.2.4
- 1.4
- 1.4.3
- 2.0.6
- 2.0.10
- 2.0.16
- 2.0.17
- 2.0.18
- 2.1
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.1.3
- 2.1.90
- 2.1.91
- 2.2
- 2.2.1
- 2.2.2
- 2.2.3
- 2.2.4
- 2.2.5
- 2.2.6
- 2.3
- 2.3.1
- 2.3.2
- 2.3.3
- 2.3.4
- 2.3.5
- 2.3.6
- 2.3.7
- 2.3.8
- 2.3.10
- 2.3.11
- 2.3.12
- 2.3.13
- 2.3.14
- 2.3.15
- 2.3.16
- 2.3.17
- 2.3.19
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect version of balsa as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.89% (0.03893) | 89.92th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.89% (0.03893) | 88.86th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 1.22% (0.01220) | 77.21th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 2.79% (0.02795) | 76.82th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.34% (0.01338) | 78.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.08% (0.01076) | 84.91th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 16, 2024 | 1.27% (0.01269) | 85.72th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 9, 2024 | 1.25% (0.01247) | 85.44th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 26, 2023 | 1.29% (0.01289) | 84.20th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.32% (0.01322) | 83.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.42% (0.04421) | 88.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.42% (0.04421) | 87.03th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.42% (0.04421) | 70.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (15)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193179 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-September/msg00010.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
- http://osvdb.org/40585 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26947 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27272 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-17.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25777 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3263 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5007 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297581 x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5007
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5007
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