Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5006

Title: University Of Washington Imap Toolkit Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5006.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Nov 10, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.67%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 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/2008/11/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46604 http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 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/2008/11/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46604

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5006 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 10, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.