{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-09-14T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "cyrus-impad: CMU sieve buffer overflows",
    "id" : "523910",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523910"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-121",
  "details" : [ "Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Sieve plugin in Dovecot 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.7, as derived from Cyrus libsieve, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIEVE script, as demonstrated by forwarding an e-mail message to a large number of recipients, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2632." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1459",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1459",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3235\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3235" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-3235",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "All these additional overflows are sprintf()s to static char buffers.  On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later (including all current Fedora versoins), these overflows are caught by FORTIFY_SOURCE reducing the impact to controlled abort of one of the cyrus-imapd child processes that are later re-spawned by the master.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}