debian · CVE-2008-5514

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:58:39 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-5514 medium priority: Debian including 2 source packages (alpine, uw-imap), 7 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 7.

Description:

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.

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