CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4907
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed From address, which triggers an assertion error, aka "invalid message address parsing bug."
Affected configurations
• dovecot dovecot 1.1.4
• dovecot dovecot 1.1.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32479 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32677 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31997 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46227 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32479 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32677 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html www.dovecot.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31997 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46227 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com