VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8078

high
Published 2015-12-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Integer overflow in the index_urlfetch function in imap/index.c in Cyrus IMAP 2.3.19, 2.4.18, and 2.5.6 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to urlfetch range checks and the section_offset variable. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8076.

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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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cyrusimap2.3.0
cyrusimap2.3.1
cyrusimap2.3.2
cyrusimap2.3.3
cyrusimap2.3.4
cyrusimap2.3.5
cyrusimap2.3.6
cyrusimap2.3.7
cyrusimap2.3.8
cyrusimap2.3.9
cyrusimap2.3.10
cyrusimap2.3.11
cyrusimap2.3.12
cyrusimap2.3.13
cyrusimap2.3.14
cyrusimap2.3.15
cyrusimap2.3.16
cyrusimap2.3.17
cyrusimap2.3.18
cyrusimap2.4.0
cyrusimap2.4.1
cyrusimap2.4.2
cyrusimap2.4.3
cyrusimap2.4.4
cyrusimap2.4.5
cyrusimap2.4.6
cyrusimap2.4.7
cyrusimap2.4.8
cyrusimap2.4.9
cyrusimap2.4.10
cyrusimap2.4.11
cyrusimap2.4.12
cyrusimap2.4.13
cyrusimap2.4.14
cyrusimap2.4.15
cyrusimap2.4.16
cyrusimap2.4.17
cyrusimap2.5.0
cyrusimap2.5.1
cyrusimap2.5.2
cyrusimap2.5.3

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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