Mercury Mail Transport System multiple IMAP command buffer overflow
| mercury-command-bo (18318) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Mercury Mail Transport System is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a buffer overflow when handling certain commands. By supplying a specially-crafted command, such as: EXAMINE, SUBSCRIBE, STATUS, APPEND, CHECK, CLOSE, EXPUNGE, FETCH, DELETE, RENAME, LIST, SEARCH, CREATE and UNSUBSCRIBE, a remote attacker could overflow the buffer and cause the server to crash.
Platforms Affected:
- Pmail, Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01a
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 16, 2009.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed Dec 01 2004 - 15:16:50 CST , Multiple buffer overflows exist in Mercury/32, v4.01a, Dec 8 2003. at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-12/0028.html.
- Pmail Web site, Mercury Mail Transport System, Windows version - Features at http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm.
- BID-11775: Mercury Mail Multiple Remote IMAP Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2004-1211: Multiple buffer overflows in the IMAP service in Mercury/32 4.01a allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) EXAMINE, (2) SUBSCRIBE, (3) STATUS, (4) APPEND, (5) CHECK, (6) CLOSE, (7) EXPUNGE, (8) FETCH, (9) RENAME, (10) DELETE, (11) LIST, (12) SEARCH, (13) CREATE, or (14) UNSUBSCRIBE commands.
- SA13348: Mercury Mail Transport System Command Handling Buffer Overflows
Reported:
Dec 01, 2004
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