PT-2008-6085 · Dovecot · Dovecot

Timo Sirainen · Published 2008-11-04 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4907

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dovecot versions 1.1.4 through 1.1.5

Description The issue concerns a denial of service that can be triggered by an email with a malformed From address, causing an assertion error due to invalid message address parsing. This can lead to a persistent crash when the FETCH ENVELOPE command is used in the IMAP client.

Recommendations For Dovecot versions 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, consider disabling the message parsing feature temporarily until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4907

Affected Products

Dovecot

References · 13

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32551 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4907 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4907 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4907 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31997 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4907 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32479 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46227 · Note
• http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32677 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 · Note