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Bug 260115 (CVE-2009-0671) - net-libs/c-client format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0671)
Summary: net-libs/c-client format string vulnerability (CVE-2009-0671)
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2009-0671
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/0902-e...
Whiteboard: B2 [ebuild]
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Blocks: 255121 260117
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Reported: 2009-02-24 11:40 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-02-25 16:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-24 11:40:27 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 2009-02-24 11:43:36 UTC 
Red Hat is disputing this issue, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0671
Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 16:09:11 UTC 
The CVE will be REJECTED, both upstream and other researchers could not confirm this report.