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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5006

Original release date:11/10/2008

Last revised:01/23/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/30/2009): The affected code is not used by any application shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. The impact of this flaw is limited to a crash of the applications connecting to a misbehaving SMTP server. Due to those reasons, theres currently no plan to include the fix in the imap packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3, and the libc-client packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

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External Source: XF

Name: imap-toolkit-smtp-dos(46604)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46604

External Source: BID

Name: 32280

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081103 Re: CVE request - uw-imap

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:146

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146