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uw-imap: buffer overflow in dmail and tmail

Published Nov 10, 2008

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.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 10, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 10, 2008
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 31, 2008
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 10, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2008-4984