CVE-2005-2665: Elm Development Group Elm

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 15.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in expires.c in Elm 2.5 PL5 through PL7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with a long Expires header.

Affected products

• Elm Development Group Elm: version 2.5_pl5 only; version 2.5_pl6 only; version 2.5_pl7 only

Published 2005-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.