CVE-2008-5429 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-5429

Incredimail build 5853710 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail...

Vulnerability Description

Incredimail build 5853710 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

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

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Affected Vendor

incredimail

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Affected Software

incredimail
Vulnerable Versions:
5.85

Timeline

Official Publish: December 11th, 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.