CVE-2008-5005 Information

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.

Reference

http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4 http://panda.com/imap/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32483 http://secunia.com/advisories/32512 http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 http://secunia.com/advisories/33996 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042 http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10485 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html