CVE-2008-1648

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Sympa: 0.001, 0.002, 0.003, 0.004, 0.005, 0.006 (+123)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29575
http://secunia.com/advisories/30910
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1600
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:133
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28539
http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1080/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41561
http://secunia.com/advisories/29575
http://secunia.com/advisories/30910
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167

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