CVE-2008-7258

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    CVE-2008-7258

    Published: 20 Aug 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/41009, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128013391907262&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128017258305041&w=2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236, http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128077707318085&w=2, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High