CVE-2008-7258
The standardise function in Anibal Monsalve Salazar sSMTP 2.61 and 2.62 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit)…
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- mitre
Description
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
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- sSMTP 2.62 - 'standardize()' Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34375dos, linuxpublished 26 Jul 2010Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- 41965 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-11811 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100726 Re: CVE-2008-id Request -- ssmtp -- standardise() -- Buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100819 Re: CVE-2008-id Request -- ssmtp -- standardise() -- Buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-11836 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 41009 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100726 CVE-2008-id Request -- ssmtp -- standardise() -- Buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100802 Re: CVE-2008-id Request -- ssmtp -- standardise() -- Buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-7214 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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