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IPSwitch IMail SMTP Buffer Overflow
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
SMTP problems
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
A vulnerability exists within IMail that allows remote attackers to gain SYSTEM level access to servers running IMail's SMTP daemon (versions 6.06 and below).
Insight
Insight
The vulnerability stems from the IMail SMTP daemon not doing proper bounds checking on various input data that gets passed to the IMail Mailing List handler code.
Solution
Solution
Download the latest patch from the linked references.