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MailEnable POP Service "PASS" Command Buffer Overflow
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SUMMARY
" <http://mailenable.com/> MailEnable's mail server software provides a
powerful, scalable hosted messaging platform for Microsoft Windows.
MailEnable offers stability, unsurpassed flexibility and an extensive
feature set which allows you to provide cost-effective mail services".
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in MailEnable, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
DETAILS
Vulnerable Systems:
* MailEnable Enterprise Edition version 2.35
* MailEnable Professional Edition version 2.35
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the POP service
when handling arguments passed to the "PASS" command. This can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by passing an overly
long, specially crafted string as argument to the affected command.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Apply hotfix: <http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ME-10026.EXE>
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ME-10026.EXE
Time Table:
18/12/2006 - Vendor notified.
18/12/2006 - Vendor response and hotfix released.
18/12/2006 - Public disclosure.
CVE Information:
<http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6605>
CVE-2006-6605
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:vuln@secunia.com> Secunia
Research.
The original article can be found at:
<http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-75/>
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-75/
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