CVE-2008-2829

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

php_imap.c in PHP 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 4.x, and other versions, uses obsolete API calls that allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long IMAP request, which triggers an "rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow" error message, related to the rfc822_write_address function.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04
PHP: through 4.4.9; 5.2.5, 5.2.6

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42862
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://osvdb.org/46641
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
http://secunia.com/advisories/35306
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml

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