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>> Metamail Mail Boundary Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Metamail Mail Boundary Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0565
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0709
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-14
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A vulnerability has been identified in Metamail, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when processing email messages with overly long boundary headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by sending a specially crafted email to an affected application.
Affected Products
Metamail version 2.7 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0565
http://bugs.debian.org/352482
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ulf Harnhammar
ChangeLog
2006-02-14 : Initial release
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