Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5514

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-23 18:13:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:47
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.