CVE-2008-5514

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

University Of Washington Imap: through 2007d; 2000, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, 2001, 2001a (+30)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33275
http://secunia.com/advisories/33638
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490
http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33275
http://secunia.com/advisories/33638

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