CVE-2025-43857

Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Prior to versions 0.5.7, 0.4.20, 0.3.9, and 0.2.5, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time while the client is connected, a maliciou...

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the ResponseReader class. An attacker can cause the application to allocate excessive memory and trigger a denial of service by including "literal" strings in responses sent to...

GHSA-J3G3-5QV5-52MJ net-imap rubygem vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion

Summary There is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time while the client is connected, a malicious server can send can send a "literal" byte count, which is automatically read by the client's receiver thread. The response reader...

net-imap rubygem vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion

Summary There is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time while the client is connected, a malicious server can send can send a "literal" byte count, which is automatically read by the client's receiver thread. The response reader...

CVE-2025-43857: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Prior to versions 0.5.7, 0.4.20, 0.3.9, and 0.2.5, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time while the client is connected, a maliciou...

net-imap rubygem vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion

Summary There is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time while the client is connected, a malicious server can send can send a "literal" byte count, which is automatically read by the client's receiver thread. The response reader...

PT-2025-18094

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Net::IMAP versions prior to 0.5.7, 0.4.20, 0.3.9, and 0.2.5 Description The issue allows for denial of service by memory exhaustion when Net::IMAP reads server responses. A malicious server can send a "literal" byte count, which is automatical...

Internet Bug Bounty: Denial of Service by memory exhaustion in net/imap

A vulnerability was discovered in the net-imap library that allowed denial of service by memory exhaustion. The vulnerability was caused by the library automatically reading and allocating memory for the size of "literal" strings sent by the server, without any limit on the size. This could be...

Amazon Linux 2023 : ruby3.2, ruby3.2-bundled-gems, ruby3.2-default-gems (ALAS2023-2025-929)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-929 advisory. Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for...

Medium: ruby3.2

Issue Overview: Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion in net-imap's response parser. At any time while the...

Medium: ruby3.2

Issue Overview: Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion in net-imap's response parser. At any time while the...

SUSE CVE-2010-2777

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP server component in GroupWise Internet Agent GWIA in Novell GroupWise 7.x before 7.0 post-SP4 FTF and 8.x before 8.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long mailbox name in a CREATE command...

USN-7418-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04...

USN-7418-1 ruby2.7, ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04...

Security update for curl

This update for curl fixes the following issues: Update to 8.12.1: Bugfixes: asyn-thread: fix build with 'CURLDISABLESOCKETPAIR' asyn-thread: fix HTTPS RR crash asyn-thread: fix the returned bitmask from Curlresolvergetsock asyn-thread: survive a c-ares channel set to NULL cmake: always reference...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-25186

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5....

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-38370

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In Alpine before 2.25, untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted before STARTTLS. CVE-2021-38370 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the packag...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-34055

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Cyrus IMAP before 3.8.3 and 3.10.x before 3.10.0-rc1 allows authenticated attackers to cause unbounded memory allocation by sending many LITERALs in a single...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-24386

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in Dovecot before 2.3.13. By using IMAP IDLE, an authenticated attacker can trigger unhibernation via attacker-controlled parameters,...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-22946

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A user can tell curl = 7.20.0 and = 7.78.0 to require a successful upgrade to TLS when speaking to an IMAP, POP3 or FTP server --ssl-reqd on the command line...