CVE-2008-5514
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 23, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 12, 2008
Description
Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html
- 33275third-party-advisory
- 32958vdb-entry
- 33638third-party-advisory
- uwimapd-rfc822outputchar-dos(47526)vdb-entry
- 1021485vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2009-0371vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227
- ADV-2008-3490vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2009:146vendor-advisory
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