Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5007

RCE

Title: Gnome Balsa RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5007.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 12, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.99%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5007: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

stuart_parmenter 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193179 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-September/msg00010.html http://osvdb.org/40585 http://secunia.com/advisories/26947 http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 http://secunia.com/advisories/27272 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-17.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25777 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297581 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193179 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474366 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-September/msg00010.html http://osvdb.org/40585 http://secunia.com/advisories/26947 http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 http://secunia.com/advisories/27272 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-17.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25777 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297581

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5007 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 12, 2007 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.