CVE-2005-2933 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2933 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in the mail_valid_net_parse_work function in mail.c for Washington's IMAP Server (UW-IMAP) before imap-2004g allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a mailbox name containing a single double-quote (") character without a closing quote, which causes bytes after the double-quote to be copied into a buffer indefinitely.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 120608 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:023, published Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:55:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025