PT-2008-5354 · Softalk · Softalk Mail Server

Joo Antunes · Published 2008-09-11 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4041

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Softalk Mail Server version 8.5.1.431

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in resource consumption and daemon crash, by sending a long IMAP APPEND command with certain repeated parameters to the IMAP server.

Recommendations For Softalk Mail Server version 8.5.1.431, consider restricting access to the IMAP APPEND command until a patch is available to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4041

Affected Products

Softalk Mail Server

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32310 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31715 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4041 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44862 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4238 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30970 · Note