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CVE-2008-5006

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.

Affected products

• University Of Washington Imap Toolkit: 2007b

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33142
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46604
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33142
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32280
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46604

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