Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:16396

Info

Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 16396
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2005-4411
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 26 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 11 2008 11:41PM
Credit: kcope <[email protected]> discovered this issue.
Vulnerable: David Harris Mercury (win32 version) 4.0 1b
David Harris Mercury (win32 version) 4.0 1a
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Mercury Mail is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability in its mailbox name service. This issue occurs because the application fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to a finite-sized memory buffer.

Exploiting this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary machine code with SYSTEM privileges in the context of the affected server process.

Mercury Mail 4.01b is affected; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Core Security Technologies has developed a working commercial exploit for its CORE IMPACT product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

The following exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a patch to address this issue.


David Harris Mercury (win32 version) 4.0 1b

David Harris Mercury (win32 version) 4.0 1a

References

Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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