CVE-2005-1522

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The imap4d server for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows authenticated remote users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large range value in the FETCH command.

The imap4d server for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows authenticated remote users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large range value in the FETCH command.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

GNU Mailutils

First reported 20 years ago

2005-05-26 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:49:00

Affected Software

GNU Mailutils 0.5

0.5

GNU Mailutils 0.6

0.6

References

15442

Vendor Advisory

1014052

DSA-732

20050525 GNU Mailutils 0.6 imap4d FETCH Commad Resource Consumption DoS Vulnerability

Patch

13765

Patch

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