UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the UW IMAP toolkit and the c-client library, the worst of which leading to the execution of arbitrary code. c-client uw-imap 2009-11-25 2009-11-25 245425 252567 remote 2007e 2007e 2007e 2007e

The UW IMAP toolkit is a daemon for the IMAP and POP3 network mail protocols. The c-client library provides an API for IMAP, POP3 and other protocols.

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit:

A remote attacker could send an e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. A local attacker could gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument to the tmail or dmail program. Furthermore, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted mail message to the UW IMAP toolkit or another daemon using the c-client library, leading to a Denial of Service. A remote SMTP server could respond to the QUIT command with a close of the TCP connection instead of the expected 221 response code, possibly leading to a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All c-client library users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/c-client-2007e"

All UW IMAP toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/uw-imap-2007e"
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