ClearSwift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.19 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ClearSwift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.19. It has been declared as critical. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2006-3215. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in ClearSwift MAILsweeper up to 4.3.19. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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. CVE summarizes:

Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP before 4.3.20 and MAILsweeper for Exchange before 4.3.20 allows remote attackers to bypass the "text analysis", possibly bypassing SPAM and other filters, by sending an e-mail specifying a non-existent or unrecognized character set.

The weakness was published 06/21/2006 by Clearswift Corporation with ClearSwift (Website). The advisory is available at download.mimesweeper.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-3215 since 06/23/2006. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at clearswift.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27301), SecurityFocus (BID 18584†), OSVDB (26737†) and Secunia (SA20756†). Similar entries are available at VDB-2329, VDB-2328, VDB-30989 and VDB-84177. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: clearswift.com

Timelineinfo

06/21/2006 🔍
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04/21/2018 +4317 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: download.mimesweeper.com
Researcher: Clearswift Corporation
Organization: ClearSwift
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-3215 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3215
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2330
X-Force: 27301 - MAILsweeper for SMTP/Exchange character set security bypass
SecurityFocus: 18584
Secunia: 20756 - MAILsweeper for SMTP/Exchange Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 26737 - MAILsweeper for SMTP/Exchange Invalid Character Set Scan Bypass
Vupen: ADV-2006-2473

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/26/2006 17:40
Updated: 04/21/2018 09:34
Changes: 06/26/2006 17:40 (64), 04/21/2018 09:34 (9)
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Cache ID: 216:D71:103

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