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GLSA-200911-03 : UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities
critical Nessus Plugin ID 42913
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200911-03 (UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities)Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit:
Aron Andersson and Jan Sahlin of Bitsec reported boundary errors in the 'tmail' and 'dmail' utilities when processing overly long mailbox names, leading to stack-based buffer overflows (CVE-2008-5005).
An error in smtp.c in the c-client library was found, leading to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability (CVE-2008-5006).
Ludwig Nussel reported an off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char() function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit (CVE-2008-5514).
Impact :
A remote attacker could send an e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. A local attacker could gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument to the tmail or dmail program. Furthermore, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted mail message to the UW IMAP toolkit or another daemon using the c-client library, leading to a Denial of Service. A remote SMTP server could respond to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code, possibly leading to a Denial of Service.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All c-client library users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-libs/c-client-2007e' All UW IMAP toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-mail/uw-imap-2007e'
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Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 42913
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200911-03.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 11/30/2009
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:c-client, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:uw-imap
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-5005, CVE-2008-5006, CVE-2008-5514
BID: 32958