CVE-2004-1012

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The argument parser of the PARTIAL command in Cyrus IMAP Server 2.2.6 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a certain command ("body[p") that is treated as a different command ("body.peek") and causes an index increment error that leads to an out-of-bounds memory corruption.

Affected products

Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus Imap Server: 2.1.7, 2.1.9, 2.1.10, 2.1.16, 2.2.0_alpha, 2.2.1_beta (+7)
Conectiva Linux: 9.0, 10.0
Openpkg: current
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0
Trustix Secure Linux: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
Ubuntu Linux: 4.1

References

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-announce&msg=143
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/changes.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110123023521619&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13274/
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/152004.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-34.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-597
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:139
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18199
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-31-1/
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-announce&msg=143
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/changes.html

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