Buffer overflow in University Of Washington Imap

CVE-2008-5514

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.018 (75.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.