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Courier Mail Server Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15901
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Release Date:
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2005-07-04
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Last Update:
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2005-07-12
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Popularity:
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6,152 views
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Critical:
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Less 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: | Courier Mail Server 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2151
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Courier Mail Server, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in "rfc1035/spf.c" when handling DNS lookup failures while looking up SPF records. This causes freeing of non-allocated memory and can potentially be exploited to crash the service.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.50.0. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 0.50.1
Provided and/or discovered by:
Mr. Sam
Changelog:
2005-07-12: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.courier-mta.org/changelog.html
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