CVE-2020-16118

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-16118 · Published 29/07/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-16118 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting balsa (gnome), backports sle (opensuse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.6.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
balsa gnome	`< 2.6.0`	`2.6.0`
backports sle opensuse	`= 15.0`	No fix yet

Description

In GNOME Balsa before 2.6.0, a malicious server operator or man in the middle can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and client crash by sending a PREAUTH response to imap_mbox_connect in libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html · Mailing List
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5 · Patch
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23 · Exploit

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