Name | CVE-2008-5514 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DTSA-174-2 |
Debian Bugs | 510918 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
alpine (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.11+dfsg1-3+deb8u1 | fixed |
stretch | 2.20+dfsg1-7 | fixed | |
buster | 2.21+dfsg1-1.1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 2.24+dfsg1-1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 2.26+dfsg-1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 2.26+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
uw-imap (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 8:2007f~dfsg-4+deb8u1 | fixed |
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 8:2007f~dfsg-5+deb9u1 | fixed | |
buster, buster (lts) | 8:2007f~dfsg-6+deb10u1 | fixed | |
sid, bullseye, trixie, bookworm | 8:2007f~dfsg-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
alpine | source | squeeze | 2.00+dfsg-6+squeeze1 | |||
alpine | source | (unstable) | 2.02-3.1 | low | ||
uw-imap | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
uw-imap | source | lenny | 2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 | DTSA-174-2 | ||
uw-imap | source | (unstable) | 2007b~dfsg-1.1 | medium | 510918 |
[etch] - uw-imap <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[lenny] - alpine <no-dsa> (Minor issue)