CVE-2008-5005

Published Nov 10, 2008

Last updated 9 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
10
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References