CVE-2008-4907

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CVE-2008-4907

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CVE-2008-4907 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 442593 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:31:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:43 2022