CVE-2008-5006 (GCVE-0-2008-5006)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-11-10 11:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:40
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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