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Mercury Mail Transport System Command Handling Buffer Overflows
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13348
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Release Date:
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2004-12-02
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Last Update:
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2005-01-24
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Popularity:
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8,833 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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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: | Mercury Mail Transport System 3.x
Mercury Mail Transport System 4.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mercury Mail Transport System, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in the handling of some commands. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying an overly long argument (about 512 to 1024 bytes).
The following commands are affected:
* EXAMINE
* SUBSCRIBE
* STATUS
* APPEND
* CHECK
* CLOSE
* EXPUNGE
* FETCH
* RENAME
* DELETE
* LIST
* SEARCH
* CREATE
* UNSUBSCRIBE
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 4.01a. Other versions may also be affected.
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