MailEnable SPF Lookup Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA21998
Release Date: 2006-09-18
Popularity: 7,058 views

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

Software:MailEnable Enterprise Edition 1.x
MailEnable Enterprise Edition 2.x
MailEnable Professional 1.x
MailEnable Professional 2.x
MailEnable Standard 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4616


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

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the SMTP service when under certain circumstances processing SPF lookups. This can be exploited by performing an SPF lookup for a domain with large records.

Successful exploitation crashes the SMTP service.

Solution:
Apply hotfix:
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/MESMTPC.ZIP

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.


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