CVE-2008-1648

Summary

CVECVE-2008-1648
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-04-02 17:44:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionSympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sympa Sympa 0.001 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.002 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.003 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.004 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.005 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.006 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.007 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.008 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.009 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.010 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 0.011 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.2.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.2.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.2.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.1-2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.3.4-1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.4.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.4.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.4.2-1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 1.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.1b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.2b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.3b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.6 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2.7 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.2b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.3beta All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.5.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.5.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.5.3b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.5.4b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.6 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.6.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7a All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7b.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7b.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 2.7b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0a All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0a.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0b.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0b.8 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.0b.9 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.10 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.12 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.13 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.7 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.8 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.1b.9 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.2.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.2.2a All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.6 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.7 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.8 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.4b.9 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.6b.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.6b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.6b.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.6b.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3.6b.6 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3a-vhost.10 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.3b.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 3.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a6 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a7 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a8 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.a9 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.b1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.b2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.0.b3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.2b.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 4.2b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.0 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.0a All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.0a.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.0b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.0b.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.1.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.2b All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.2b2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3a.10 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3a.8 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3a.9 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3b.1 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3b.3 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3b.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.3b.5 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.4a.2 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.4a.4 All All All
Application Sympa Sympa 5.4b.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:133 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Debian update for sympa - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SourceSup: Sympa: Detail: 3702 Corrupted Content-Type: header causes sympa.pl to crash sending text digest af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourcesup.cru.fr Exploit
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1600-1 sympa af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Webmail | OVH- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Sympa Malformed "Content-Type" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
distribution:latest-stable:news [Sympa mailing list server] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sympa.org
Sympa 'Content-Type' Header Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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