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Eudora Internet Mail Server NTLM Authentication Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA18356
Release Date: 2006-01-09
Last Update: 2006-01-26
Popularity: 5,129 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS) 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0141


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS), which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability in caused due to an error in the handling of malformed NTLM authentication requests. This can be exploited to crash the server.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 3.2.8.

Note: It has also been reported that a corrupted Incoming Mail X or Temporary Mail file can also cause the server to crash.

Solution:
Update to version 3.2.8.

-- EIMS 3.2 OS X --

EIMS Server X patch (requires version 3.2.7):
http://www.eudora.co.nz/EIMSServerX328patch.zip

EIMS Server Light X (requires version 3.2.6):
http://www.eudora.co.nz/EIMSServerLightX328patch.zip

-- EIMS 3.2 OS 7/8/9 --

EIMS Server X patch (requires version 3.2.7):
http://www.eudora.co.nz/EIMSServer327to328patch.sit

EIMS Server Light X (requires version 3.2.7):
http://www.eudora.co.nz/EIMSServerLight328patch.sit

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2006-01-26: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.eudora.co.nz/updates.html


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