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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- UNIVERSITY_OF_WASHINGTON
- Published
- 11/10/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
university_of_washington : imap_toolkit
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