Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5006 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in University of Washington Imap Toolkit 2007B

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
university-of-washington
CWE-399
nessus

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
University_Of_Washington
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-146.NASL
    descriptionSecurity vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit : 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
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id39573
    published2009-06-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39573
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : imap (MDVSA-2009:146-1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:146. 
    # The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(39573);
      script_version ("1.15");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:52");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5005", "CVE-2008-5006", "CVE-2008-5514");
      script_bugtraq_id(32958);
      script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2009:146-1");
    
      script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : imap (MDVSA-2009:146-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:
    "The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
    updates."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in University
    of Washington IMAP Toolkit :
    
    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
    (CVE-2008-5005).
    
    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 (CVE-2008-5006).
    
    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
    (CVE-2008-5514).
    
    The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. Note that the
    software was renamed to c-client starting from Mandriva Linux 2009.0
    and only provides the shared c-client library for the imap functions
    in PHP.
    
    Update :
    
    Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
    customers."
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
      script_cwe_id(119, 399);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:imap");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:imap-devel");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:imap-utils");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64c-client-php-devel");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64c-client-php0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libc-client-php-devel");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libc-client-php0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/12/28");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/06/30");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"imap-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"imap-devel-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"imap-utils-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64c-client-php-devel-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64c-client-php0-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libc-client-php-devel-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libc-client-php0-2006j-1.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_IMAP-5868.NASL
    descriptionInsufficient buffer length checks in the imap client library may crash applications that use the library to print formatted email addresses. The imap daemon itself is not affected but certain versions of e.g. the php imap module are (CVE-2008-5514). The client library could also crash when a rogue server unexpectedly closes the connection (CVE-2008-5006).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35247
    published2008-12-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35247
    titleopenSUSE 10 Security Update : imap (imap-5868)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_1_IMAP-081217.NASL
    descriptionInsufficient buffer length checks in the imap client library may crash applications that use the library to print formatted email addresses. The imap daemon itself is not affected but certain versions of e.g. the php imap module are (CVE-2008-5514). The client library could also crash when a rogue server unexpectedly closes the connection (CVE-2008-5006).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id40232
    published2009-07-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40232
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : imap (imap-368)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1685.NASL
    descriptionTwo vulnerabilities have been found in uw-imap, an IMAP implementation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : It was discovered that several buffer overflows can be triggered via a long folder extension argument to the tmail or dmail program. This could lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-5005 ). It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference could be triggered by a malicious response to the QUIT command leading to a denial of service (CVE-2008-5006 ).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35091
    published2008-12-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35091
    titleDebian DSA-1685-1 : uw-imap - buffer overflows, NULL pointer dereference
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_0_IMAP-081217.NASL
    descriptionInsufficient buffer length checks in the imap client library may crash applications that use the library to print formatted email addresses. The imap daemon itself is not affected but certain versions of e.g. the php imap module are (CVE-2008-5514). The client library could also crash when a rogue server unexpectedly closes the connection (CVE-2008-5006).
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id39987
    published2009-07-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39987
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : imap (imap-368)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200911-03.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200911-03 (UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit: Aron Andersson and Jan Sahlin of Bitsec reported boundary errors in the
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id42913
    published2009-11-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/42913
    titleGLSA-200911-03 : UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Statements

contributorTomas Hoger
lastmodified2009-01-30
organizationRed Hat
statementThe affected code is not used by any application shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. The impact of this flaw is limited to a crash of the applications connecting to a misbehaving SMTP server. Due to those reasons, theres currently no plan to include the fix in the imap packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3, and the libc-client packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.