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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2003-0128 json

The try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a deni…

published 2003-03-21 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0124

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.5%
EPSS 16.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious uuencoded (UUE) header, possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Patch / fix

  • evolution Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0128

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0128 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:108

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22370)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22370 Ximian Evolution 1.x - UUEncoding Denial of Service dos, 2003-03-17
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7117 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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