Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14360
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in NeoMutt before 2018-07-16. nntp_add_group in newsrc.c has a stack-based buffer overflow because of incorrect sscanf usage.
osv:CVE-2018-14360
Complete source record
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