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Metamail Mail Boundary Handling Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18796
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Release Date:
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2006-02-14
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Last Update:
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2006-02-20
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Metamail 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0709 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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Description:
Ulf Harnhammar has reported a vulnerability in Metamail, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of boundary headers within an email message. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.7. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Use another product.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Ulf Harnhammar
Changelog:
2006-02-20: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. Metamail Message Parsing System Compromise Vulnerabilities
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