MailEnable Professional and MailEnable Enterprise IMAP service denial of service
| mailenable-imapservice-dos (41059) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
MailEnable Professional and MailEnable Enterprise are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by NULL pointer errors in the IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe). By sending specially-crafted arguments to the SEARCH and APPEND commands, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.7 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Apply the hotfix for this vulnerability (ME-10040.EXE), available from the MailEnable Web site. See References.
References:
- Luigi Auriemma Advisories, 07 Mar 2008: MailEnable Professional and Enterprise.
- MailEnable Web site: MailEnable - high performance mail server software.
- BID-28145: MailEnable 3.13 and Prior IMAP Service Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-1277: The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) SEARCH and (2) APPEND commands without required arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
- SA29277: MailEnable IMAP Service Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1019565: MailEnable Buffer Overflows in FETCH, EXAMINE, and UNSUBSCRIBE Commands Let Remote Authenticated Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-0799: MailEnable Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- MailEnable MailEnable 3.13 and prior Professional
- MailEnable MailEnable 3.13 and prior Enterprise
Reported:
Mar 07, 2008
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