National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5514

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/12/2009)

Not 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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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-0371

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227

External Source: XF

Name: uwimapd-rfc822outputchar-dos(47526)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47526

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html

Hyperlink:http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html

External Source: BID

Name: 32958

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:146

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3490

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/3490

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021485

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33638

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33638

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33275

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33275