Pegasus Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in Pegasus Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b for Windows has unknown impact and attack vectors, as originally reported in a GLEG VulnDisco pack. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information. The original researcher is reliable.

The bug was discovered 11/15/2006. The weakness was disclosed 11/14/2006 (Website). The advisory is available at gleg.net. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-5961 since 11/16/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 24785 (Mercury IMAP Server LOGIN 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.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. 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 6334.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (24785) and Exploit-DB (1223).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 24785
Nessus Name: Mercury IMAP Server LOGIN Command Remote Overflow
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 1842
Snort Message: PROTOCOL-IMAP login buffer overflow attempt
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: gleg.net
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-5961 (🔍)
Vulnerability Center: 14597 - Mercury Mail Transport System Buffer Overflow via LOGIN Command, High
SecurityFocus: 21110 - Mercury Mail Transport System Concatenated Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 22857 - Mercury Mail Transport System Unspecified Buffer Overflow, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 30395 - Mercury Mail Transport System IMAP Server LOGIN Command Remote Overflow

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 07/16/2019 15:29
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (80), 07/16/2019 15:29 (1)
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Cache ID: 18:2BF:103

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