CVE-2008-5514 Information

Description

Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/33275 http://secunia.com/advisories/33638 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490 http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html