MailGate Email Firewall LHA extended-header filename buffer overflow
| emf-lha-extheader-filename-bo (27942) |  High Risk |
Description:
MailGate Email Firewall is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking of extended-header filenames in an LHA archive. By sending an LHA archive containing a file with a long extended-header filenames in an email attachment, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system once the message is processed.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 5.7 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Mon Jul 24 2006 - 18:38:54 CDT: Hustle -- Tumbleweed Email Firewall Remote Vulnerability.
- MailGate Email Firewall Web site: Email Firewall Solution, SMTP Relay - MailGate by Tumbleweed Communications.
- BID-19146: Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall Multiple LHA Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-3901: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Tumbleweed Email Firewall (EMF) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email attachment with an LHA archive that contains a (1) file or (2) directory with a long LHA extended header, (3) an LHA archive in which the temporary pathname field for decompressed output is greater than 2 bytes, or (4) an LHA archive with a long filename.
- OSVDB ID: 27495: Tumbleweed Email Firewall (EMF) LHA Processing MMSDecompose Function Multiple Overflow
- SA21194: Tumbleweed Email Firewall LHA File Parsing Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-2970: Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall LHA Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall
Reported:
Jul 24, 2006
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