National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5005

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667

External Source: MLIST

Name: [imap-uw] 20081031 Security bug in tmail and dmail

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9396

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9383

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html

External Source: XF

Name: uwimapd-tmail-bo(46281)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46281

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html

Hyperlink:http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3042

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042

External Source: BID

Name: 32072

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081103 Bitsec Security Advisory: UW/Panda IMAP [dt]mail buffer overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081103 Re: CVE request - uw-imap

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081103 Re: CVE request - uw-imap

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081103 CVE request - uw-imap

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:146

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1685

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021131

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4570

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33996

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33996

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33142

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33142

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32512

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32512

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32483

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32483

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0275

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://panda.com/imap/

Hyperlink:http://panda.com/imap/

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10485

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10485

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20081103 Bitsec Security Advisory: UW/Panda IMAP [dt]mail buffer overflow

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [imap-uw] 20081031 Security bug in tmail and dmail

Hyperlink:http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10485

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10485