CVE-2008-5006 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Uw-imap

CWE-399CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian Uw-imapUniversity OF Washington Imap Toolkit
Timeline
PublishedNov 10
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/uw-imap< uw-imap 7:2007d~dfsg-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r9mv-q87p-6xv4: smtp↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2008-5006: smtp↗2008-11-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
uw-imap: NULL pointer dereference in smtp.c↗2008-11-03
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Debian
CVE-2008-5006: uw-imap - smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b al...↗2008
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-5006 uw-imap: NULL pointer dereference in smtp.c↗2008-11-10
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