CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7258
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The standardise function in Anibal Monsalve Salazar sSMTP 2.61 and 2.62 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit) via an e-mail message containing a long line that begins with a . (dot) character. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because it is solely a usability problem for senders of messages with certain long lines, and has no security impact
Affected configurations
• anibal monsalve salaz ssmtp 2.61
• anibal monsalve salaz ssmtp 2.62
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128013391907262&w=2 Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128017258305041&w=2 Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2 marc.info
- http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41009 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965 Exploit
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128013391907262&w=2 Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128017258305041&w=2 Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2 marc.info
- http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41009 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965 Exploit
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258 bugzilla.redhat.com