CVE-2008-5005

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-10-31
Bugzilla:
469667: CVE-2008-5005 uw-imap: buffer overflow in dmail and tmail

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5005 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (imap) RHSA-2009:0275 2009-02-19

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