CVE-2008-5005
uw-imap - several vulnerabilities
EPSS 4.8%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2008-5005
To remediate CVE-2008-5005, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7:2007d~dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 7:2002edebian1-13.1+etch1 or later
- —upgrade to 2007b~dfsg-4+lenny1 or later
- —upgrade to 2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 or later
Is CVE-2008-5005 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 7:2007d~dfsg-1
- from 0, < 7:2002edebian1-13.1+etch1
- from 0, < 2007b~dfsg-4+lenny1
- from 0, < 2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3