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CVE-2015-3205 in the critical feed json

libmimedir allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a VCF file with two NULL bytes at the end of the file, related to "free" f…

published 2015-06-16 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-3271

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.6%
EPSS 10.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

libmimedir allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a VCF file with two NULL bytes at the end of the file, related to "free" function calls in the "lexer's memory clean-up procedure."

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-3205 updated cvss 1.2

libmimedir: stack buffer overflow in _mdir_mem_forget()

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-37249)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37249 Libmimedir - '.VCF' Memory Corruption (PoC) dos, 2015-06-10
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132257/Libmimedir-VCF-Memory-Corruption-Proof-Of-Concept.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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