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Clearswift MAILsweeper Multiple Denial of Service and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

VUPEN ID VUPEN/ADV-2006-2473
CVE ID CVE-2006-3215 - CVE-2006-3216
 
CWE ID Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
CVSS V2 Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Rated as Moderate Risk 
Impact Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Authentication Level Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Access Vector Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Release Date 2006-06-21
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Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in MAILsweeper for SMTP and MIMEsweeper for Exchange, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass security restrictions.

The first issue is due to an error when handling a messages that specify a non-existent character set, which could be exploited to bypass text analysis.

The second flaw is due to an error in the Receiver service that does not properly handle reverse DNS lookups when the "Received" header in a message includes non-ASCII characters, which could cause the service to stop processing messages.

The third vulnerability is due to an error in the Security service that does not properly handle malformed messages, which could cause the service to stop processing messages.

Affected Products

MAILsweeper for SMTP version 4.3.19 and prior
MIMEsweeper for Exchange version 4.3.19 and prior

Solution 

Upgrade to version 4.3.20 :
http://www.mimesweeper.com/support/msw/patch.aspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2473
http://download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/ReadMe_MSW_4,3,20.htm

Credits 

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor

Changelog 

2006-06-21 : Initial release

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Monthly Statistics 

 

 VUPEN Security Advisories By Criticality: Sep 2010


  Critical Risk

: 21%

  High Risk
: 2%

  Moderate Risk
: 51%

  Low Risk
: 26%

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