Ubuntu 4.10 : cyrus21-imapd vulnerability (USN-87-1)

Sean Larsson discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP 'annotate' extension. This possibly allowed an authenticated IMAP client to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Cyrus IMAP server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

security flaw

Multiple buffer overflows in Cyrus IMAPd before 2.2.11 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via 1 an off-by-one error in the imapd annotate extension, 2 an off-by-one error in "cached header handling," 3 a stack-based buffer overflow in fetchnews, or 4 a stack-based buffer overflow in...

cyrus-imapd -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The Cyrus IMAP Server ChangeLog states: Fix possible single byte overflow in mailbox handling code. Fix possible single byte overflows in the imapd annotate extension. Fix stack buffer overflows in fetchnews exploitable by peer news server, backend exploitable by admin, and in imapd exploitable b...