ubuntu · CVE-2017-16844

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Priority: high Published: 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:27:58 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-16844 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (procmail), 5 status rows across 5 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): released 5.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadbuf function in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail message because of a hardcoded realloc size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3618.

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