CVE-2005-1520: GNU Mailutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the header_get_field_name function in header.c for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail.

Affected products

• GNU Mailutils: version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only

Published 2005-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.