Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3181  

rfc822.c in Mutt through 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailbox unavailability) by sending email messages with sequences of semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields (aka terminators of empty groups). A small email message from the attacker can cause large memory consumption, and the victim may then be unable to see email messages from other persons.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

rfc822.c in Mutt through 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailbox unavailability) by sending email messages with sequences of semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields (aka terminators of empty groups). A small email message from the attacker can cause large memory consumption, and the victim may then be unable to see email messages from other persons.

AVG-1476 mutt 2.0.4-1 2.0.5-1 Low Fixed

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/17/2
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/323
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/uploads/ecd287245a2d0ac0108797eab2f1a224/rfc822_parse_adrlist.txt
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/commit/4a2becbdb4422aaffe3ce314991b9d670b7adf17