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CVE-2022-1328

mutt: buffer overflow in uudecoder function

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 14, 2022

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in mutt. When reading unencoded messages, mutt uses the line length from the untrusted input without any validation. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious message, which leads to an out-of-bounds read, causing data leaks that include fragments of other unrelated messages.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')