Buffer overflow in University Of Washington Alpine
CVE-2008-5005
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.064 (92.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- University_of_washington Alpine — versions 0.80, 0.81, 0.82
- University_of_washington Imap_toolkit — versions 2002, 2003, 2004
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (URL Repurposed, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (URL Repurposed, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)