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Secunia Advisory SA8822

MailMAX Buffer Overflow in IMAPMax Module
Secunia Advisory SA8822
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2003-05-21
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
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Software:
MailMax 5.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in MailMax, which can be exploited by a malicious person to conduct a Denial of Service and possibly execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the included IMAPMax module. A malicious person can exploit this by supplying a long, specially crafted argument to the "SELECT" command after authentication, which can result in execution of arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

Version 5.0.10.8 has been reported vulnerable.


Solution
Version 5.5 is not vulnerable:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Matrix at 0x36.org

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