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ZoneAlarm SMTP Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10921
Release Date: 2004-02-19
Last Update: 2004-02-24
Popularity: 16,505 views

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

Software:Zone Labs Integrity 4.x
ZoneAlarm 4.x
ZoneAlarm Plus 4.x
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
eEye has discovered a vulnerability in ZoneAlarm and Integrity client, allowing users to escalate their privileges and potentially also allowing malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the SMTP processing system when handling outgoing email messages. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending an email with an overly long value in a "RCPT TO:" header.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges and can be remotely exploited without any user action if the SMTP service is running on a protected system.

The vulnerability has been reported to affect version 4.x. Prior versions are not vulnerable.

NOTE: According to the vendor, only a small percentage of users are affected, since this is an untypical setup as servers shouldn't be protected with the client security products.

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