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ghsa-cfr9-jq6w-r8wj

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Published

2022-05-17 02:18

Modified

2022-05-17 02:18

Details

The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed From address, which triggers an assertion error, aka "invalid message address parsing bug."

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CVE-2008-4907 (GCVE-0-2008-4907)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2008-11-04 00:00

Modified

2024-08-07 10:31

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed From address, which triggers an assertion error, aka "invalid message address parsing bug."

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://secunia.com/advisories/33149	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46227	vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31997	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	http://secunia.com/advisories/32677	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://secunia.com/advisories/32479	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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