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CVE-2008-5005

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
10/11/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.999:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.9999:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.99999:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.999999:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:2.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap_toolkit:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap_toolkit:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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