CVE-2008-4041

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The IMAP server in Softalk Mail Server (formerly WorkgroupMail) 8.5.1.431 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and daemon crash) via a long IMAP APPEND command with certain repeated parameters.

Affected products

Softalk Mail Server: 8.5.1.431

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31715
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4238
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44862
http://secunia.com/advisories/31715
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4238
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44862

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