Ipswitch IMail Web Calender Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:3431

Info

Ipswitch IMail Web Calender Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3431
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2001-1287
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 12 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:06AM
Credit: Discovered and posted to Bugtraq in a Defcom Labs Advisory def-2001-29 on Oct 12, 2001.
Vulnerable: Ipswitch IMail 7.0.4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Ipswitch IMail Web Calender Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Ipswitch IMail is an email server that serves clients their mail via a web interface. IMail supports most common email protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and LDAP etc.

Due to improper bounds checking, the Web Calendaring feature of IMail could allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of SYSTEM. This is achieveable by submitting a specially crafted GET request.

Exploit / POC

Ipswitch IMail Web Calender Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Ipswitch IMail Web Calender Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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