University of Washington Alpine up to 2.00 extension memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in University of Washington Alpine up to 2.00. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument extension leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2008-5005. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in University of Washington Alpine up to 2.00 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument extension with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and + character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.

The weakness was released 11/10/2008 as Bug 469667 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-5005 since 11/10/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67805 (Oracle Linux 3 : imap (ELSA-2009-0275)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116235 (Red Hat Update for imap (RHSA-2009:0275)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (46281), Tenable (67805), SecurityFocus (BID 32072†), OSVDB (49485†) and Secunia (SA32483†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 67805
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 3 : imap (ELSA-2009-0275)
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OpenVAS ID: 62955
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1685-1 (uw-imap)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: washington.edu

Advisory: Bug 469667
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-5005 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-5005
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-44951

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X-Force: 46281
SecurityFocus: 32072 - University of Washington IMAP 'tmail' and 'dmail' Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 32483 - UW-imapd "tmail" and "dmail" Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 49485 - UW-imapd dmail Utility Mailbox Name Handling Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1021131
Vulnerability Center: 20280 - University of Washington IMAP and Alpine, and Panda IMAP Local Privilege Escalation, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-3042

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 05/25/2025 05:38
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (84), 08/22/2019 12:20 (4), 05/25/2025 05:38 (21)
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