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CVE-2007-0221 (GCVE-0-2007-0221)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-05-08 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:12
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the IMAP (IMAP4) support in Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service hang) via crafted literals in an IMAP command, aka the "IMAP Literal Processing Vulnerability."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018015 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23810 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/25183 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1711 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.osvdb.org/34392 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-05-08 00:00
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