VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2008-7258

low
Published 2010-08-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.1

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34375 dos linux verified
Brendan Boerner · 2010-07-26

sSMTP 2.62 - 'standardize()' Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
debian Debian Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected —
sid Affected —
forky Affected —
bullseye Affected —
bookworm Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
anibal_monsalve_salazssmtp2.61
anibal_monsalve_salazssmtp2.62

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.