MailEnable Professional up to 1.72 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in MailEnable Professional up to 1.72 (Mail Server Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Webmail in MailEnable Professional Edition before 1.73 and Enterprise Edition before 1.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors involving "incorrectly encoded quoted-printable emails".

The bug was discovered 03/20/2006. The weakness was published 03/20/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at secunia.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-1338 since 03/20/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21118 (MailEnable Webmail Malformed Encoded Quoted-printable Email DoS (CVE-2006-1338)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 1.73 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25315) and Tenable (21118). Similar entries are available at 23106, 28541, 29670 and 29284.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21118
Nessus Name: MailEnable Webmail Malformed Encoded Quoted-printable Email DoS (CVE-2006-1338)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: MailEnable Professional 1.73

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-1338 (🔍)
X-Force: 25315
Vulnerability Center: 10801 - MailEnable Webmail Remote DoS via Quoted-Printable Emails, High
SecurityFocus: 17161 - MailEnable Enterprise/Professional Editions Webmail Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 19288 - MailEnable Webmail and POP3 Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 24014 - MailEnable WebMail Malformed Encoded Quoted-printable Mail DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-1006

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/15/2019 21:40
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (75), 06/15/2019 21:40 (1)
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