Hitachi Groupmax Mail Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17635
Release Date: 2005-11-18
Popularity: 5,240 views

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

Software:Groupmax Mail 6.x
Groupmax Mail 7.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Hitachi Groupmax Mail, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP server when processing certain malformed emails. This can be exploited to cause the service to stop via specially crafted email messages.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions.
* Groupmax Mail - SMTP Version 06-50 through 06-52-/A.
* Groupmax Mail - SMTP Version 07-00 through 07-20.

Solution:
Update to the fixed versions.

Groupmax Mail - SMTP Version 6:
Fixed in version 06-52-SE.

Groupmax Mail - SMTP Version 7:
Fixed in version 07-20-SA and 07-20-/A.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS05-024_e/01-e.html


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