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CVE-2005-0667

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0667 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Sylpheed email client versions prior to 1.0.3 and 1.9.5, also affecting distributions like altlinux, gentoo, and redhat. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted email with non-ASCII characters in certain headers, triggered when the user replies. With a CVSS score of 5.1, it's a medium severity vulnerability requiring high attack complexity, but could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:0.8.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sylpheed:sylpheed:0.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0325 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0667Moderate

security flaw

Mar 7, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/14491
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Vendor Advisory
sylpheed.good-day.net / changelog-devel.html.en
PatchVendor Advisory
sylpheed.good-day.net / changelog.html.en
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-303.html
PatchVendor Advisory