University of Washington Imapd 10.234 memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in University of Washington Imapd 10.234. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Arbitrary command execution via IMAP buffer overflow in authenticate command.

The weakness was released 07/20/1998 with CERT as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10292 (UoW imapd AUTHENTICATE Command Remote Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gain a shell remotely and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 50014 (IMAP 'authenticate' Command Buffer Overflow Vulnerability).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 1842. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 478.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (1463) and Tenable (10292).

Affected

  • University of Washington imapd 10.234
  • Netscape Messaging Server 3.55

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 10292
Nessus Name: UoW imapd AUTHENTICATE Command Remote Overflow
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Snort ID: 1842
Snort Message: PROTOCOL-IMAP login buffer overflow attempt
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Suricata ID: 2101930
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06/22/1999 +337 days 🔍
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06/19/2014 +4257 days 🔍
05/05/2019 +1781 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: washington.edu

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Organization: CERT
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0005 (🔍)
X-Force: 1463
Vulnerability Center: 196 - Buffer Overflow in WU-IMAP 10.234, High
SecurityFocus: 130 - imapd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 06/19/2014 16:47
Updated: 05/05/2019 14:34
Changes: 06/19/2014 16:47 (80), 05/05/2019 14:34 (1)
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Cache ID: 3:69E:103

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