Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Qualcomm Eudora WorldMail Server, which may be exploited by attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the IMAP daemon that does not properly handle specially crafted commands containing directory traversal sequences, which may be exploited by authenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from a vulnerable system or read/manage other user's email messages.

Affected Products

Qualcomm Eudora WorldMail Server version 3.0 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2479
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/994

Credits

Vulnerability reported by iDEFENSE

ChangeLog

2005-11-17 : Initial release

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