CVE-2010-0409
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h in GMime before 2.4.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via input data for a uuencode operation.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0440)
- Published
- February 8, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0440 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
- gnome / gmime
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.14-2.4.15.diff.gz(Patch)
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.15.changes
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38459
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561457
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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