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Kerio MailServer IMAP LOGIN Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19150
Release Date: 2006-03-09
Last Update: 2006-03-16
Popularity: 6,833 views

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

Software:Kerio MailServer 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1158


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the handling of the IMAP LOGIN command. This can be exploited to cause the Kerio MailServer engine to crash via specially-crafted arguments passed to the command.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 6.1.3 Patch 1.

Solution:
Update to version 6.1.3 Patch 1.
http://www.kerio.com/kms_download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Michael Shvarts, GLEG Ltd.

Changelog:
2006-03-16: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.kerio.com/kms_history.html


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