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Tumbleweed Email Firewall LHA File Parsing Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA21194  
Release Date: 2006-07-25
Last Update: 2006-07-28

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:MailGate Email Firewall 6.x
Tumbleweed Messaging Management System (MMS) 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-3901 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
Ryan Smith has reported three vulnerabilities in Tumbleweed Email Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A boundary error within the processing of LHA extended-header filenames can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

2) A boundary error within the processing of LHA extended-header directory names can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

3) A boundary error within the processing of files in LHA archives can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted LHA archive containing files with overly long filenames.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code when an e-mail with a specially crafted attachment is processed.

Solution:
According to the researcher, the vendor will not be releasing a patch. Instead, the vendor has reportedly suggested a workaround (contact the vendor for more information).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Ryan Smith

Changelog:
2006-07-28: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hustlelabs.com/advisories/04072006_tweed.pdf



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Tumbleweed EMF ZOO Archive Processing Buffer Overflow


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