CVE-2008-5005: University Of Washington Alpine

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.

Affected products

• University Of Washington Alpine: version 0.80 only; version 0.81 only; version 0.82 only; version 0.83 only; version 0.98 only; version 0.99 only; …
• University Of Washington Imap Toolkit: version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only; version 2007 only; …

Published 2008-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.