CVE-2007-5007: Gnome Balsa

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq function in balsa before 2.3.20 might allow remote IMAP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a FETCH command.

Affected products

• Gnome Balsa: version 1.1.7 only; version 1.2.4 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 2.0.6 only; version 2.0.10 only; …

Published 2007-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.