Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0546

RCE

Title: Cyrus IMAPd multiple buffer overflows RCE

RCE, Buffer Overflow

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0546.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.82%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0546: Multiple buffer overflows in Cyrus IMAPd before 2.2.11 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an off-by-one error in the imapd annotate extension, (2) an off-by-one error in "cached header handling," (3) a stack-based buffer overflow in fetchnews, or (4) a stack-based buffer overflow in imapd.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

cyrus 1

Reference Links

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=33723 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82404 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000937 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110972236203397&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/14383 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-29.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1013278 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:051 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-408.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430294/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12636 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10674 http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=33723 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82404 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000937 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110972236203397&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/14383 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-29.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1013278 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:051 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-408.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430294/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12636 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10674

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0546 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.