CVE-1999-1224
Published Oct 8, 1997
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the server (imapd) via certain sequences of commands, which causes a core dump that may contain sensitive password information.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 3.6
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imapd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "358DA403-C53C-41C5-8BA2-ECCD90A08FC4"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imapd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "F96386E6-0756-4181-9A05-1AA8AA202982"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]