University of Washington IMAP Toolkit smtp.c denial of service
| imap-toolkit-smtp-dos (46604) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
University of Washington IMAP Toolkit is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference, caused by an error in smtp.c within the c-client library. By closing the TCP connection as a response to the QUIT command, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.7 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Apply the appropriate patch for your system. See References.
References:
- IMAP FTP page: Index of ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/.
- IMAP Web page: IMAP Information Center.
- oss-security Mailing List, Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:43 +0100 : Re: CVE request - uw-imap .
- BID-32280: University of Washington IMAP 'smtp.c' Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-5006: smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.
- DSA-1685: uw-imap -- buffer overflows
- MDVSA-2009:146: imap
- MDVSA-2009:146-1: imap
- SUSE-SR:2009:001: SUSE Security Summary Report
Platforms Affected:
- Debian Debian Linux 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0 X86_64
- University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b
Reported:
Nov 03, 2008
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