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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2008-5005 json

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine…

published 2008-11-10 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4984

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.4%
EPSS 6.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.

Patch / fix

  • uw-imap Debian 12 7:2007d~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5005

  • imap RHEL 3 1:2002d-15
  • imap-utils RHEL 3 1:2002d-15

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0275

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5005 updated

uw-imap: buffer overflow in dmail and tmail

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 imap 2002d-15, imap-utils 2002d-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 imap 2002d-15, imap-utils 2002d-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 imap 2002d-15, imap-utils 2002d-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 imap 2002d-15, imap-utils 2002d-15
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0275

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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