CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5514

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2008-12-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-23
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-119

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.

Affected configurations

• university of washington imap (<= 2007d) • university of washington imap 2000 • university of washington imap 2000a • university of washington imap 2000b • university of washington imap 2000c • university of washington imap 2001 • university of washington imap 2001a • university of washington imap 2002 • university of washington imap 2002a • university of washington imap 2002b • university of washington imap 2002c • university of washington imap 2002d • university of washington imap 2002e • university of washington imap 2002f • university of washington imap 2004 • university of washington imap 2004a • university of washington imap 2004b • university of washington imap 2004c • university of washington imap 2004d • university of washington imap 2004e • university of washington imap 2004f • university of washington imap 2004g • university of washington imap 2006 • university of washington imap 2006a • university of washington imap 2006b • university of washington imap 2006c • university of washington imap 2006d • university of washington imap 2006e • university of washington imap 2006f • university of washington imap 2006g • university of washington imap 2006h • university of washington imap 2006i • university of washington imap 2006j • university of washington imap 2006k • university of washington imap 2007 • university of washington imap 2007a • university of washington imap 2007b

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References