CVE-2008-5514 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5514 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 458579 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 568527 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:31:45 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:29:43 2023