CVE-2008-5006

UNKNOWN
5.0CVSS
Published: 2008-11-10
Updated: 2025-04-09
AI Analysis

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
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Affected Products

university_of_washington : imap_toolkit

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