CVE-2005-0100

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emacs versions 20.x through 21.3 XEmacs versions prior to 21.4

Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the movemail utility. This vulnerability allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.

Recommendations For Emacs versions 20.x through 21.3, update to a version later than 21.3 to resolve the issue. For XEmacs versions prior to 21.4, update to version 21.4 or later to resolve the issue.