>> UW-IMAP Mailbox Name Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Title : UW-IMAP Mailbox Name Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1953 CVE ID : CVE-2005-2933 CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-10-05
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in UW-IMAP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error in the "mail_valid_net_parse_work()" [src/c-client/mail.c] function that does not properly handle specially crafted mailbox names containing a quote (") character, which could be exploited by authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the IMAP server.
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