University of Washington c-client 4.53 IMAP integer coercion

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in University of Washington c-client 4.53. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component IMAP Handler. The manipulation leads to integer coercion. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2003-0297. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in University of Washington c-client 4.53 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component IMAP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer coercion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-192. Integer coercion refers to a set of flaws pertaining to the type casting, extension, or truncation of primitive data types. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

c-client IMAP Client, as used in imap-2002b and Pine 4.53, allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain large (1) literal and (2) mailbox size values that cause either integer signedness errors or integer overflow errors.

The bug was discovered . The weakness was presented 06/16/2003 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-0297 since 05/14/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 12219 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16148 (RHEL 2.1 : pine (RHSA-2005:015)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (12299), Tenable (16148), OSVDB (11766†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-22326†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Integer coercion
CWE: CWE-192 / CWE-189
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Nessus ID: 16148
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 : pine (RHSA-2005:015)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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06/16/2003 +33 days 🔍
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08/11/2014 +1894 days 🔍
09/05/2019 +1851 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: washington.edu

Advisory: redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0297 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0297
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20543
X-Force: 12299
OSVDB: 11766 - RHSA-2005-114 update not installed
Vulnerability Center: 22326 - IMAP Client Used in imap-2002b and Pine 4.53 DoS and Code Execution by Remote IMAP Servers, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 08/12/2014 01:07
Updated: 09/05/2019 11:19
Changes: 08/12/2014 01:07 (63), 09/05/2019 11:19 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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