# CVE-2008-5429: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Incredimail by sending specially crafted emails with excessive MIME parts or headers.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Dec 2008
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mmj8-qxh6-33c9

## What is CVE-2008-5429?

CVE-2008-5429 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Incredimail build 5853710 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5429?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Incredimail Incredimail.

## How do I fix CVE-2008-5429?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5429 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2008-5429 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2010-5289](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-5289/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2002-0455](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-0455/): Path traversal in n/a (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2001-0642](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0642/): Path traversal in n/a (low 2.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-5429 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2008-5429 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5429/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5429/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5429
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5429
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5429

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5429/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.