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SmarterMail Web Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory: SA29732  
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Last Update: 2008-04-21

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:SmarterMail 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1854 (Secunia mirror)

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


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have reported in SmarterMail, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error exists within the HTTP request handling in SmarterMail Web Server (SMWebSvr.exe), which can be exploited to terminate the service by sending e.g. an overly long GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, or TRACE request.

2) An error exists within the handling of malformed HTTP requests in the SmarterMail Web Server (SMWebSvr.exe). This can be exploited to crash an affected server via incomplete HTTP requests, or via HTTP requests containing special characters.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 5.0.2999. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict network access to trusted users.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Matteo Memelli
2) Lugi Auriemma

Changelog:
2008-04-14: Added vulnerability #2 to the advisory.
2008-04-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dumbermail-adv.txt



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