CVE-2008-5514: University Of Washington Imap

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• University Of Washington Imap: up to and including 2007d; version 2000 only; version 2000a only; version 2000b only; version 2000c only; version 2001 only; …

Published 2008-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.