VDB-10028 · SA54486 · OSVDB 96465

McAfee Email Gateway up to 7.5 Email Scanner denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in McAfee Email Gateway up to 7.5. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Email Scanner. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was presented 08/20/2013 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is shared for download at kc.mcafee.com. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with the vendor. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 7.5 Patch 1 is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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CPE 2.3info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 7.5 Patch 1

Timelineinfo

08/20/2013 🔍
08/20/2013 +0 days 🔍
08/21/2013 +1 days 🔍
08/23/2013 +2 days 🔍
03/23/2019 +2038 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: kc.mcafee.com
Status: Confirmed
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Secunia: 54486 - McAfee Email Gateway Email Processing "ws_inv-smtp" Denial of Service Vulnerabil, Less Critical
OSVDB: 96465

Entryinfo

Created: 08/23/2013 13:12
Updated: 03/23/2019 15:14
Changes: 08/23/2013 13:12 (43), 03/23/2019 15:14 (5)
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