Vulnerability in University Of Washington Imapd

CVE-1999-1224

IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the server (imapd) via certain sequences of commands, which causes a core dump that may contain sensitive password information.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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