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MailEnable SPF Lookup Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21998
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Release Date:
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2006-09-18
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Popularity:
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7,238 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: | MailEnable Enterprise Edition 1.x
MailEnable Enterprise Edition 2.x
MailEnable Professional 1.x
MailEnable Professional 2.x
MailEnable Standard 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4616
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in MailEnable, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the SMTP service when under certain circumstances processing SPF lookups. This can be exploited by performing an SPF lookup for a domain with large records.
Successful exploitation crashes the SMTP service.
Solution:
Apply hotfix:
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/MESMTPC.ZIP
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
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