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CVE-2008-1648

Sympa before 5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an e-mail message with a malformed value of the Content-Type header and unspecified other headers. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2008-1648 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from sympa organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Originally identified in 2008, this vulnerability predates many modern security frameworks and practices. The vulnerability landscape of that era was characterized by different threat models and less mature defense mechanisms compared to contemporary standards.

Published

2008-04-02T17:44:00.000

Last Modified

2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	sympa	sympa	0.001	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.002	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.003	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.004	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.005	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.006	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.007	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.008	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.009	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.010	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	0.011	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.2.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.2.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.2.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.1-2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.3.4-1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.4.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.4.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.4.2-1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	1.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.1b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.2b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.3b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.6	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2.7	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.2b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.3beta	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.5.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.5.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.5.3b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.5.4b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.6	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.6.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7a	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7b.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7b.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	2.7b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0a	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0a.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0b.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0b.8	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.0b.9	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.7	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.8	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.9	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.10	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.12	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.1b.13	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.2.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.2.2a	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.6	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.7	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.8	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.4b.9	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.6b.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.6b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.6b.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.6b.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3.6b.6	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3a-vhost.10	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.3b.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	3.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a6	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a7	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a8	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.a9	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.b1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.b2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.0.b3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.2b.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	4.2b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.0	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.0a	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.0a.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.0b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.0b.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.1.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.2b	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.2b2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3a.8	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3a.9	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3a.10	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3b.1	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3b.3	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3b.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.3b.5	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.4a.2	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.4a.4	Yes
Application	sympa	sympa	5.4b.1	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29575 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30910 ([email protected])
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1600 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:133 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28539 ([email protected])
http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1080/references ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41561 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/29575 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30910 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=23&aid=3702&atid=167 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1600 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:133 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28539 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1080/references (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41561 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For sympa's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.