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Medium
CVE-2008-5006
smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Affected Vendor
university of washington
View all reports →Affected Software
imap toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
2007b
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
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