CVE-2008-4907

Name	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."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
dovecot (PTS)	bullseye	1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
dovecot	source	etch	(not affected)
dovecot	source	lenny	(not affected)
dovecot	source	(unstable)	1:1.1.7-1	low

Notes

[etch] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present prior to 1.1.4)
[lenny] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present prior to 1.1.4)