vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-288f7cee-ced6-11e7-8ae9-0050569f0b83 (CVE-2017-16844): procmail -- Heap-based buffer overflow

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 21, 2017
Added
Nov 21, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

MITRE reports: A remote attacker could use a flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-procmail
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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