VDB-27683 · CVE-2005-4444 · BID 15973

David Harris Pegasus Mail up to 4.21a Trace memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in David Harris Pegasus Mail up to 4.21a. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Trace. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2005-4444. There is no available exploit. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in David Harris Pegasus Mail up to 4.21a. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Trace. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the trace message functionality in Pegasus Mail 4.21a through 4.21c and 4.30PB1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long POP3 reply.

The weakness was presented 12/20/2005 by Tan Chew Keong with Secunia Research (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at pmail.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-4444 since 12/21/2005. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 15973†), OSVDB (21842†), Secunia (SA17992†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015385†). See VDB-27684 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: pmail.com
Researcher: Tan Chew Keong
Organization: Secunia Research
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-4444 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4444
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27683
SecurityFocus: 15973 - Pegasus Mail Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 17992 - Pegasus Mail Buffer Overflow and Off-by-One Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 21842 - Pegasus Mail POP3 Trace Reply Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1015385 - Pegasus Mail Buffer Overflows in Processing POP3 Mail and Displaying Message Headers Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vupen: ADV-2005-3004

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 07/31/2017 08:56
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (62), 07/31/2017 08:56 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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