{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:27Z",
  "published": "2010-08-20T18:00:02Z",
  "id": "CVE-2008-7258",
  "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": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/41009"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=128013391907262\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=128017258305041\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41965"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582236"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ssmtp/2.62-3/345780-standardise-bufsize"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-7258"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045407.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045422.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=128077707318085\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ssmtp/+bug/282424"
    }
  ],
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    "isDisputed": true
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}