FrSIRT - Mercury Mail Transport System SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow Issue / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Mercury Mail Transport System SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow Issue

Title : Mercury Mail Transport System SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2918
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4440
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-08-20

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mercury Mail Transport System, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system [...]

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.52 :
http://www.pmail.com/m32_451.htm

Or apply patches :
http://www.pmail.com/patches.htm

Credits

Vulnerability reported by eliteb0y.

ChangeLog

2007-08-20 : Initial release
2007-08-22 : Updated Solution

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