CVE-2008-7258
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.1%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 20
1st PoCJul 26
exploitation probability
1.1%top 39% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The standardise function in Anibal Monsalve Salazar sSMTP 2.61 and 2.62 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit) via an e-mail message containing a long line that begins with a . (dot) character. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because it is solely a usability problem for senders of messages with certain long lines, and has no security impact
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/34375⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.htmlhttp://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128013391907262&w=2http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128017258305041&w=2http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsizehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258http://secunia.com/advisories/41009http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965