David Harris Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in David Harris Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b. This impacts an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2005-4411. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in David Harris 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 105.

The bug was discovered 12/16/2005. The weakness was disclosed 12/16/2005 by kcope and kcope (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-4411 since 12/20/2005. 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.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at saintcorporation.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20812 (Mercury Mail ph Server 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.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11918.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (23669), Exploit-DB (1375), Tenable (20812), SecurityFocus (BID 16396†) and OSVDB (22103†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 20812
Nessus Name: Mercury Mail ph Server Remote Overflow
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Saint ID: exploit_info/mercury_mail_phonebook
Saint Name: Mercury Mail Transport System Phonebook service buffer overflow

MetaSploit ID: mercury_phonebook.rb
MetaSploit Name: Mercury/32 PH Server Module Buffer Overflow
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Researcher: kcope, kcope
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-4411 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4411
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27652
X-Force: 23669
SecurityFocus: 16396 - Mercury Mail Remote Mailbox Name Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 18611
OSVDB: 22103 - Mercury Mail Transport System ph Server Remote Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1015374
Vulnerability Center: 10223 - Mercury Mail Server Buffer Overflow via ph Server, Critical

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 06/16/2024 16:48
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (87), 06/13/2019 16:37 (6), 06/16/2024 16:48 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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