MailEnable Standard SMTP Service denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MailEnable Standard. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component SMTP Service. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-4616. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in MailEnable Standard (Mail Server Software) (version now known) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component SMTP Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

SMTP service in MailEnable Standard, Professional, and Enterprise before ME-10014 (20060904) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an SPF lookup for a domain with a large number of records, which triggers a null pointer exception.

The bug was discovered 09/05/2006. The weakness was presented 09/06/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mailenable.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-4616 since 09/06/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22411 (MailEnable SMTP Connector Service SPF Record Crafted Lookup 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 l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9057.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28910), Tenable (22411), SecurityFocus (BID 20091†), OSVDB (28944†) and Secunia (SA21998†). See VDB-2707, VDB-2728, VDB-2727 and VDB-2767 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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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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Nessus ID: 22411
Nessus Name: MailEnable SMTP Connector Service SPF Record Crafted Lookup DoS
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03/12/2015 +3090 days 🔍
07/08/2019 +1579 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: mailenable.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-4616 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4616
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-32143
X-Force: 28910
SecurityFocus: 20091 - MailEnable SMTP SPF Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 21998 - MailEnable SPF Lookup Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 28944 - MailEnable - SMTP SPF - Remote Denial of Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1016792
Vulnerability Center: 12773 - MailEnable Before ME-10014 SMTP Service Remote DoS Via an SPF Lookup, High
Vupen: ADV-2006-3669

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 07/08/2019 18:13
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (63), 07/08/2019 18:13 (21)
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