Out-of-Bounds Affecting uw-imap package, versions <2007b~dfsg-1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-UWIMAP-527896
  • published23 Dec 2008
  • disclosed23 Dec 2008

Introduced: 23 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5514  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 uw-imap to version 2007b~dfsg-1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream uw-imap package and not the uw-imap package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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