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CVE-2008-5006: university_of_washington imap_toolkit Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-5006
Published 10-11-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5006 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in university_of_washington imap_toolkit. EPSS estimates a 1.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.91%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3
DSA-1685-1DTSA-174-1DTSA-174-2

Timeline

  1. 10-11-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.91%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.91% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.91%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • uw-imap< 7:2007d~dfsg-1
University_of_washington1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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