CVE-2008-5005 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-5005

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

university of washington

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Affected Software

alpine, imap toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, 0.98, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, 0.99999, 0.999999, 1.00, 1.10, 2.00, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2007c

Timeline

Official Publish: November 10th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.