--- title: "CVE-2008-2105\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-2105?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2008-2105 Publication date 7 May 2008 Last updated 17 July 2025 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description email\_in.pl in Bugzilla 2.23.4, 3.0.x before 3.0.4, and 3.1.x before 3.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to more easily spoof the changer of a bug via a @reporter command in the body of an e-mail message, which overrides the e-mail address as normally obtained from the From e-mail header. NOTE: since From headers are easily spoofed, this only crosses privilege boundaries in environments that provide additional verification of e-mail addresses. [Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-2105?format=md#notes) ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | bugzilla | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected | | 7.10 gutsy | Not affected | | 7.04 feisty | Not affected | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## Notes --- ### [kees](https://launchpad.net/~kees) this really should be for bugzilla3 but it's not in intrepid yet --- ### [wgrant](https://launchpad.net/~wgrant) our 2.x releases are too old, and 3.0.4 is too new. ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2105) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2105) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-2105) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2105) ### Other references *