7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-5740

Published: 31/10/2007 Updated: 15/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via an IMAP tag with a null byte followed by a format string specifier, which is not counted by the mechanism.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #448853 CVE-2007-5740 format string vulnerability Package: perdition; Maintainer for perdition is Simon Horman <horms@debianorg>; Source for perdition is src:perdition (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nico Golde <nion@debianorg> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:48:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: p ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/26270/info Perdition IMAP proxy server is prone to a remote format-string vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before passing it as the format specifier to a formatted-printing function An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code in the context o ...