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Bug 260117 - net-mail/uw-imap format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0671)
Summary: net-mail/uw-imap format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0671)
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B2 [ebuild]
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Depends on: CVE-2009-0671
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Reported: 2009-02-24 11:41 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-02-25 16:09 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-24 11:41:08 UTC 
CVE-2009-0671 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0671):
  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).
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 16:09:12 UTC 
INVALID, see blocker for details.