Unscored CVE-1999-1224 EUVD-1999-1205GHSA-xgvp-66r9-6jg6

IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the serv…

Published Sep 12, 2001 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the server (imapd) via certain sequences of commands, which causes a core dump that may contain sensitive password information.

References

imapd-core(349) vdb-entry
19971008 L0pht Advisory: IMAP4rev1 imapd server mailing-list