CVE-2005-4445

MEDIUM 5.1CVE-2005-4445 · Published 21/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4445 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability affecting pegasus mail (david harris).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pegasus mail david_harris	`= 4.21a= 4.21b= 4.21c= 4.30pb1`	No fix yet

Description

Off-by-one error in Pegasus Mail 4.21a through 4.21c and 4.30PB1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long email message header, which triggers a one-byte buffer overflow.

References

secunia.com/advisories/17992 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-61/advisory · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id
osvdb.org/21843
pmail.com/newsflash.htm · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/419908/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/15973

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

pegasus mail

david_harris

= 4.21a= 4.21b= 4.21c= 4.30pb1

No fix yet

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