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Vulnerability details: VCID-fdg1-sfty-aaag
Vulnerability ID VCID-fdg1-sfty-aaag
Aliases CVE-2008-5005
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
rhas Moderate https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0275
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cvssv2 10.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5005
Reference id Reference type URL
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4
http://panda.com/imap/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-5005.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-5005
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5005
http://secunia.com/advisories/32483
http://secunia.com/advisories/32512
http://secunia.com/advisories/33142
http://secunia.com/advisories/33996
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10485
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c
http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:alpine:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap_toolkit:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:imap_toolkit:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2008-5005 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5005
GLSA-200911-03 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200911-03
RHSA-2009:0275 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0275
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5005
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.89922
EPSS Score 0.06194
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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