Out-of-Bounds Affecting alpine package, versions <2.02-3.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ALPINE-308803
  • 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:9 alpine to version 2.02-3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream alpine package and not the alpine package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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.

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