A vulnerability has been identified in Balsa, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "ir_fetch_seq()" [libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c] function when processing an overly long response to a "FETCH" command, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious IMAP server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Evil Ninja Squirrel.
ChangeLog
2007-09-25 : Initial release
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