A vulnerability has been identified in NetWin Surgemail, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the IMAP server when handling overly long arguments passed to the "LIST" or "LSUB" command, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Matteo Memelli (ryujin) and Leon Juranic (INFIGO IS).
ChangeLog
2008-03-17 : Initial release
2008-03-23 : Updated Solution
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