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Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Message Handling Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24371
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Release Date:
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2007-03-02
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Last Update:
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2007-03-27
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Popularity:
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8,854 views
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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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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.x
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Binary Analysis:
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BA35 :: Available for 1 Credit 
BA43 :: Available for 1 Credit
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-1252
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Insufficient validation of mail headers can be exploited to cause the server to exhaust available threads and stop handling other connections when processing specially crafted messages.
2) A boundary error when processing attachments can be exploited to crash the filter-hub.exe process via a specially crafted executable attachment.
Other vulnerabilities when handling certain specific messages may also exist that can be exploited to cause a crash and potentially allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 5.0 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Apply Patch 175.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Arvanitis
Changelog:
2007-03-06: Added CVE reference.
2007-03-27: Added additional information from Secunia Research.
Original Advisory:
Symantec:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english...0_smtp/updates/release_notes_p175.txt
Other References:
US-CERT VU#875633:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/875633
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