SB2011122903 - Fedora EPEL 5 update for alpine
Published: December 29, 2011 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011122903
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2008-5514)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.