CVE-2008-5514

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5514
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-23 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-08-08 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionOff-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2001 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2001a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004g All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006g All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006h All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006i All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006j All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006k All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2000c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2001 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2001a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2002f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2004g All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006c All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006d All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006e All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006f All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006g All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006h All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006i All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006j All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2006k All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007 All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007a All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap 2007b All All All
Application University Of Washington Imap All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 477227 – CVE-2008-5514 libc-client: buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
UW IMAP software--UW IMAP Server Documentation CONFIRM www.washington.edu
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: uw-imap-2007e-1.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
University of Washington IMAP c-client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
UW-imapd c-client Library Off-by-one Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
uw-imap Client Library Bug Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:146 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Security Advisory SA33638 - Fedora update for uw-imap - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-12Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of imap as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3, and the versions of libc-client as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
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