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UW-imapd tmail and dmail BOF Vulnerabilities (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Buffer overflow
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host has UW-imapd installed and is prone to Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
The flaws are due to boundary error in the tmail/dmail utility, when processing overly long mailbox names composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string and when specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line.
Affected Software
Affected Software
University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and priror on Linux. University Of Washington's imapd Versions prior to 2007d on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Update to Version 2007d.