CVE-2008-5514

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-12-15
Bugzilla:
477227: CVE-2008-5514 libc-client: buffer overflow in rfc822_output_char / rfc822_output_data

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5514 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

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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