CVE-2005-0892

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2005-0892 · Published 28/03/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-0892 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting smail (smail).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.0%, higher than 95.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
smail smail	`= 3.2.0.120`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in smail 3.2.0.120 allows remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the MAIL FROM command and possibly other SMTP commands.

References

marc.info
debian.org/security/2005/dsa-722 · Patch

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