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Mercur Messaging IMAP Service Multiple Buffer Overflows Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA19267  
Release Date: 2006-03-17
Last Update: 2007-03-29

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Mercur Messaging 2005

CVE reference:CVE-2006-1255 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercur Messaging 2005, which can be exploited by malicious people and malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the handling of various IMAP commands. These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long arguments passed to e.g. the LOGIN, SELECT, EXAMINE, STATUS, CREATE, DELETE, RENAME, LIST, LSUB, and UNSUBSCRIBE commands. Other commands may also be affected.

Successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in versions 5.0 SP3 and SP4. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Tim Taylor

Additional information provided by Secunia Research.

Changelog:
2006-03-21: Added CVE reference.
2007-03-29: Added additional information from Secunia Research.

Original Advisory:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-March/043972.html



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4 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Mercur Messaging IMAP SUBSCRIBE Command Buffer Overflow
2. Mercur Messaging IMAP NTLM Authentication Processing Vulnerabilities
3. Mercur Messaging Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
4. Mercur Messaging Multiple Vulnerabilities


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