MailEnable Professional NTLM denial of service
| mailenable-ntlm-dos (32482) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
MailEnable Professional is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the NTLM_UnPack_Type3 function of the MENTLM.dll file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a AUTHENTICATE NTLM command followed by specially-crafted base64-encoded data to cause the IMAP or POP service to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 3.5 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-Of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of MailEnable (2.351 or later), available from the MailEnable Web site. See References.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed Feb 14 2007 - 04:14:14 CST: MailEnable DoS POC.
- MailEnable Web site: MailEnable Downloads.
- BID-22565: MailEnable SMTP NTLM Authentication Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-0955: The NTLM_UnPack_Type3 function in MENTLM.dll in MailEnable Professional 2.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain base64-encoded data following an AUTHENTICATE NTLM command to the imap port (143/tcp), which results in an out-of-bounds read.
- SA24139: MailEnable NTLM Authentication Denial of Service
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-0614: MailEnable NTLM Authentication NTLM_UnPack_Type3() Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- MailEnable MailEnable 2.35 and prior Enterprise
- MailEnable MailEnable 2.35 and prior Professional
Reported:
Feb 14, 2007
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