CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5514
4.3 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33275 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33638 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490 www.vupen.com
- http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html www.washington.edu
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html www.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33275 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33638 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490 www.vupen.com
- http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html www.washington.edu
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html www.redhat.com