CVE-2008-5006 (GCVE-0-2008-5006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-10 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Assigner
References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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