Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0042

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

COMPLETE

Integrity impact

COMPLETE

Availability impact

COMPLETE

network

low complexity

critical

nessus

exploit available

NVD

Published: 1997-04-07

Updated: 2022-08-17

Summary

Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP servers.

Part	Description	Count
Application	University_Of_Washington University OF Washington POP 3 University OF Washington Imap 4	2
OS	Ibm IBM AIX 4.2.1	1
OS	Redhat Redhat Linux 2.0 Redhat Linux 4.0	2
OS	Caldera Caldera Openlinux 1.0	1
OS	Bsdi Bsdi BSD OS 3.0 Bsdi BSD OS 2.1	2

description	Linux imapd Remote Overflow File Retrieve Exploit. CVE-1999-0042. Remote exploit for linux platform
id	EDB-ID:340
last seen	2016-01-31
modified	1997-06-24
published	1997-06-24
reporter	p1
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/340/
title	Linux imapd Remote Overflow File Retrieve Exploit

NASL family	Gain a shell remotely
NASL id	IMAP_OVERFLOW.NASL
description	A remote buffer overflow in this IMAP server may allow a remote user to gain root privileges. University of Washington IMAP server is known to be affected.
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	10125
published	1999-06-22
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/10125
title	UoW IMAP/POP server_login() Function Remote Overflow