CVE-2020-16117 (GCVE-0-2020-16117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-29 17:59
Modified
2024-08-04 13:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g., minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This is related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server.
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