Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5006 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in University of Washington Imap Toolkit 2007B
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL 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 |
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-146.NASL description 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 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39573 published 2009-06-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39573 title Mandriva 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 family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_IMAP-5868.NASL description Insufficient 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35247 published 2008-12-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35247 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : imap (imap-5868) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_1_IMAP-081217.NASL description Insufficient 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40232 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40232 title openSUSE Security Update : imap (imap-368) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1685.NASL description Two 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35091 published 2008-12-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35091 title Debian DSA-1685-1 : uw-imap - buffer overflows, NULL pointer dereference NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_IMAP-081217.NASL description Insufficient 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39987 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39987 title openSUSE Security Update : imap (imap-368) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200911-03.NASL description The 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 42913 published 2009-11-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/42913 title GLSA-200911-03 : UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities
Statements
contributor | Tomas Hoger |
lastmodified | 2009-01-30 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | The 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. |