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CVE-2008-5005
N/ADescription
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published11/10/2008
Last Modified4/23/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
university_of_washington:alpineuniversity_of_washington:imap_toolkit
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-119
References
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4(cve@mitre.org)
http://panda.com/imap/(cve@mitre.org)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32483(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32512(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33142(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33996(cve@mitre.org)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570(cve@mitre.org)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131(cve@mitre.org)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html(cve@mitre.org)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667(cve@mitre.org)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281(cve@mitre.org)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10485(cve@mitre.org)
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://panda.com/imap/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32483(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32512(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33142(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33996(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10485(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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