Vulnerability Details : CVE-2008-5006

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.
Published 2008-11-10 14:12:56
Updated 2017-08-08 01:33:03
Source MITRE
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Vulnerability category: Memory CorruptionDenial of service

Products affected by CVE-2008-5006

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5006

EPSS FAQ
0.43%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 74 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2008-5006

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.0
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2008-5006

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Vendor statements for CVE-2008-5006

  • Red Hat 2009-01-30
    The affected code is not used by any application shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. The impact of this flaw is limited to a crash of the applications connecting to a misbehaving SMTP server. Due to those reasons, theres currently no plan to include the fix in the imap packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3, and the libc-client packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

References for CVE-2008-5006

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