Novell NetMail up to 3.10 IMAP Daemon stack-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Novell NetMail up to 3.10 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component IMAP Daemon. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-6425. Moreover, an exploit is present. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Novell NetMail up to 3.10. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component IMAP Daemon. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon (IMAPD) in Novell NetMail before 3.52e FTF2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving the APPEND command.

The weakness was disclosed 12/26/2006 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-6425 since 12/09/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Ruby. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 3.52e eliminates this vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 3066.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 21723†), Secunia (SA23437†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1017437†). The entries VDB-2626, VDB-34047, VDB-34046 and VDB-34036 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Saint ID: exploit_info/netmail_imap_append
Saint Name: NetMail IMAP APPEND command buffer overflow

MetaSploit ID: novell_netmail_append.rb
MetaSploit Name: Novell NetMail IMAP APPEND Buffer Overflow
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: NetMail 3.52e

Snort ID: 3066
Snort Message: PROTOCOL-IMAP append overflow attempt
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12/09/2006 🔍
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12/26/2006 +3 days 🔍
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01/18/2025 +3600 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: novell.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-6425 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-6425
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-34037
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SecurityFocus: 21723 - Novell Netmail IMAP APPEND Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 23437 - Novell NetMail NMAP/IMAP Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
SecurityTracker: 1017437
Vupen: ADV-2006-5134

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

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 01/18/2025 17:14
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (71), 08/12/2018 08:04 (7), 01/18/2025 17:14 (17)
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