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imap: denial of service

Package(s):imap CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5514
Created:January 12, 2009 Updated:January 6, 2010
Description:

From the SUSE advisory:

Insufficient buffer length checks in the imap client library may crash applications that use the library to print formatted email addresses. The imap daemon itself is not affected but certain versions of e.g. the php imap module are (CVE-2008-5514).

Alerts:
Gentoo 201001-03 2010-01-05
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:146-1 2009-12-28
Gentoo 200911-03 2009-11-25
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:166 2009-07-28
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:146 2009-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0413 2009-01-14
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0371 2009-01-14
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:001 2009-01-12
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