CVE-2008-4907 Information

Description

The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed From address which triggers an assertion error aka \invalid message address parsing bug.\

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/32479 http://secunia.com/advisories/32677 http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31997 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46227