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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4907
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-4907

Description:
The message parsing feature in Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5, when using the FETCH ENVELOPE command in the IMAP client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via an email with a malformed From address, which triggers an assertion error, aka "invalid message address parsing bug."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46227

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-666-1

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA32479
  Secunia Advisory: SA32677
  Secunia Advisory: SA33149

MLIST
  http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000089.html

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml

BID
  31997


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