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>> Electronic Mail for UNIX Expires Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Electronic Mail for UNIX Expires Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1479
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2665
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-21
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A vulnerability was identified in ELM (Electronic Mail for UNIX), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error when processing specially crafted messages containing malformed "Expires" headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to read a specially crafted email.
Affected Products
Electronic Mail for UNIX (ELM) version 2.5-PL7 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to Electronic Mail for UNIX (ELM) version 2.5-PL8 :
http://www.instinct.org/elm/files/tarballs/elm2.5.8.tar.gz
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1479
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ulf Harnhammar
ChangeLog
2005-08-21 : Initial release
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