CVE-2009-0671 - ** REJECT ** Format string vulnerability in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as

CVE-2009-0671

Summary

** REJECT ** Format string vulnerability in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit imap-2007d and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the initial request to the IMAP port (143/tcp). NOTE: Red Hat has disputed the vulnerability, stating "The Red Hat Security Response Team have been unable to confirm the existence of this format string vulnerability in the toolkit, and the sample published exploit is not complete or functional." CVE agrees that the exploit contains syntax errors and uses Unix-only include files while invoking Windows functions.

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Vulnerable Configurations

CVSS

Base:	5.0
Impact:
Exploitability:

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability

refmap via4

bid	33795
misc	http://packetstormsecurity.org/0902-exploits/uwimap-format.txt http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-0671
vim	20090224 possibly false: CVE-2009-0671 (IMAP c-client format string)
xf	imap-toolkit-cclient-format-string(48798)

statements via4

contributor	Mark J Cox
lastmodified	2009-02-24
organization	Red Hat
statement	Disputed: The Red Hat Security Response Team have been unable to confirm the existence of this format string vulnerability in the toolkit, and the sample published exploit is not complete or functional.

Last major update

26-02-2009 - 07:08

Published

22-02-2009 - 22:30

Last modified

26-02-2009 - 07:08