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>> SurgeMail "SEARCH" Command Processing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : SurgeMail "SEARCH" Command Processing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2875
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4377
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-08-14


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A vulnerability has been identified in SurgeMail, which could be exploited by malicious users to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the IMAP service when processing an overly long argument passed to a "SEARCH" command, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted "SEARCH" command.

Affected Products

SurgeMail version 38k and prior

Solution

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2875

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Joey Mengele.

ChangeLog

2007-08-14 : Initial release

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