VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5006

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-11-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

smtp.c in the c-client library in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007b allows remote SMTP servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by responding to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code.

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