Description
smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.
Published: 2008-11-10
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1685-1 New uw-imap packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4985 smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.
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University Of Washington Imap Toolkit
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:40:16.891Z

Reserved: 2008-11-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-5006

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-11-10T14:12:56.170

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-5006

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-11-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5006 - Bugzilla

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