CVE-2008-5514

Name	CVE-2008-5514
Description	Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DTSA-174-2
Debian Bugs	510918

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
alpine (PTS)	bullseye	2.24+dfsg1-1	fixed
	bookworm	2.26+dfsg-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.26+dfsg-2	fixed
uw-imap (PTS)	sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye	8:2007f~dfsg-7	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
alpine	source	squeeze	2.00+dfsg-6+squeeze1
alpine	source	(unstable)	2.02-3.1	low
uw-imap	source	etch	(not affected)
uw-imap	source	lenny	2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3		DTSA-174-2
uw-imap	source	(unstable)	2007b~dfsg-1.1	medium		510918

[etch] - uw-imap <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[lenny] - alpine <no-dsa> (Minor issue)