CVE-2008-1648
Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some
02 Description
Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-04-02 17:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-04-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1ca009d9974c3347892b506eb68f1971a72ba81c15759d200ff38d10973e445e
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1080http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1080/references
- secunia.com29575http://secunia.com/advisories/29575
- sourcesup.cru.frhttp://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167
- www.debian.orgDSA-1600http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1600
- www.sympa.orghttp://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:133http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:133
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsympa-mimeentityhead-dos(41561)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41561
- www.securityfocus.com28539http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28539
- secunia.com30910http://secunia.com/advisories/30910
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sympa Fixed in 5.3.4-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sympa Fixed in 5.3.4-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sympa Fixed in 5.3.4-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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