Pmail Pegasus 4.01 IMAP Service memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Pmail Pegasus 4.01. Affected is an unknown function of the component IMAP Service. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2004-2513. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Pmail Pegasus 4.01 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component IMAP Service. 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:

Buffer overflow in the IMAP service of Mercury (Pegasus) Mail 4.01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SELECT command.

The weakness was released 12/31/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at home.kabelfoon.nl. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2513 since 10/25/2005. 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. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/15/2024).

A public exploit has been developed by muts and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 32 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18295) and Exploit-DB (663). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-23755. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.7

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

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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: muts
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Timelineinfo

11/29/2004 🔍
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12/31/2004 +32 days 🔍
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10/25/2005 +298 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3422 days 🔍
06/15/2024 +3386 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: home.kabelfoon.nl
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-2513 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2513
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23396
X-Force: 18295 - Pegasus Mail IMAP SELECT buffer overflow

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

Created: 03/09/2015 16:55
Updated: 06/15/2024 21:01
Changes: 03/09/2015 16:55 (52), 06/29/2018 10:31 (6), 06/15/2024 21:01 (17)
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