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4D WebSTAR IMAP Access Potential Denial of Service Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA17003  
Release Date: 2005-09-30

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:4D WebSTAR V 5.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in 4D WebSTAR, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

This vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the Mailbox Server. This may be exploited to crash the service via IMAP access from certain email clients.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 5.3.5.

NOTE: A crash related to SSI and Directory Indexer page processing has also been reported.

Solution:
Update to version 5.3.5 (requires version 5.3.3).
ftp://ftp.4d.com/products/webstar/current/4d_webstar_v/4DWSV_Security_535.sit

NOTE: The built-in PHP will be updated to version 4.4.0.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
ftp://ftp.4d.com/ACI_PRODUCT_REFERENC...bSTAR/Software_Change_History_535.txt



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4 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. 4D WebSTAR Tomcat Plugin URL Buffer Overflow
2. 4D WebSTAR Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. 4D WebSTAR update for OpenSSL
4. 4D WebSTAR Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow


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