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QmailAdmin "PATH_INFO" Handling Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19262
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Release Date:
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2006-03-17
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Popularity:
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6,417 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | QmailAdmin 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-1141
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in QmailAdmin, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of the "PATH_INFO" environment variable in "qmailadmin.c". This can potentially be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially-crafted URL request.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.9. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in development version 1.2.10.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=6691&release_id=395211
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py...iladmin.c?r1=1.6.2.10&r2=1.6.2.11
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