CVE-2008-7258

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The standardise function in Anibal Monsalve Salazar sSMTP 2.61 and 2.62 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit) via an e-mail message containing a long line that begins with a . (dot) character. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because it is solely a usability problem for senders of messages with certain long lines, and has no security impact

Affected products

Anibal Monsalve Salaz Ssmtp: 2.61, 2.62

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128013391907262&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128017258305041&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize
http://secunia.com/advisories/41009
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258

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