CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2933

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-10-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the mail_valid_net_parse_work function in mail.c for Washington's IMAP Server (UW-IMAP) before imap-2004g allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a mailbox name containing a single double-quote (") character without a closing quote, which causes bytes after the double-quote to be copied into a buffer indefinitely.

Affected configurations

• university of washington uw-imap (<= 2004f) • university of washington uw-imap 2004 • university of washington uw-imap 2004a • university of washington uw-imap 2004b • university of washington uw-imap 2004c • university of washington uw-imap 2004d • university of washington uw-imap 2004e

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-157 Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters weakness

References