CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-0100

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can take control of the user's system who uses a vulnerable version of Emacs or XEmacs to retrieve email from a malicious POP3 server.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Emacs to version 21.4 or later and XEmacs to version 21.5 or later, and avoid using untrusted POP3 servers.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS