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CVE-2008-5514

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
23/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2007d (including)
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2000a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2000b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2000c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2001:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2001a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2002f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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