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Mercur Mailserver AUTH Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10038
Release Date: 2003-10-21
Last Update: 2003-11-12
Popularity: 5,917 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Mercur Mailserver 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Mercur Mailserver, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the Base64 decoding routine when handling data supplied with the "AUTH" command. This can be exploited by supplying overly long, specially crafted login data, which causes a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation crashes the Mercur services or allows execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

The vulnerability affects version 4.2 without SP3a installed.

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