VUPEN Security - Hitachi Groupmax Mail Client Attachment Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Title : Hitachi Groupmax Mail Client Attachment Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-1539
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2087
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-04-26

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A vulnerability has been identified in Groupmax Mail Client, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling an email attachment with a MS-DOS device filename, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a vulnerable application to stop responding or exhaust all available memory resources.

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2006-04-26 : Initial release

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