Mailenable Professional up to 1.92 SMTP Service missing resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mailenable Professional up to 1.92 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component SMTP Service. The manipulation of the argument missing leads to resource management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2006-3277. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mailenable Professional up to 1.92 (Mail Server Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component SMTP Service. The manipulation of the argument missing with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The SMTP service of MailEnable Standard 1.92 and earlier, Professional 2.0 and earlier, and Enterprise 2.0 and earlier before the MESMTPC hotfix, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a HELO command with a null byte in the argument, possibly triggering a length inconsistency or a missing argument.

The bug was discovered 06/24/2006. The weakness was published 06/24/2006 by DivisionByZero (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mailenable.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-3277 since 06/28/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at packetstormsecurity.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21771 (MailEnable SMTP Server HELO Command Remote DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SMTP problems 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 13923. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9003.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27387), Tenable (21771), SecurityFocus (BID 18630†), OSVDB (26791†) and Secunia (SA20790†). Similar entry is available at VDB-32143. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 21771
Nessus Name: MailEnable SMTP Server HELO Command Remote DoS
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OpenVAS ID: 802914
OpenVAS Name: MailEnable SMTP HELO Command Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 13923

Suricata ID: 2002998
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: mailenable.com
Researcher: DivisionByZero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3277 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3277
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-31055
X-Force: 27387
SecurityFocus: 18630 - MailEnable SMTP HELO Command Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 20790 - MailEnable SMTP Service HELO Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 26791 - MailEnable SMTP Service HELO Command Remote DoS
SecurityTracker: 1016376
Vulnerability Center: 12150 - MailEnable SMTP Service Denial of Service via HELO Command, High
Vupen: ADV-2006-2520

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

Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 06/22/2019 06:29
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (95), 06/22/2019 06:29 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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