Kerio MailServer up to 6.4.2 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Kerio MailServer and classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation causes resource management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-0859. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Kerio MailServer (Mail Server Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Kerio MailServer before 6.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors related to decoding of uuencoded input, which triggers memory corruption.

The bug was discovered 02/19/2008. The weakness was shared 02/20/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-0859 since 02/20/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

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 31119 (Kerio MailServer < 6.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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.

Upgrading to version 6.4.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40650), Tenable (31119), SecurityFocus (BID 27868†), OSVDB (42126†) and Secunia (SA29021†). The entries VDB-23329, VDB-24210, VDB-30062 and VDB-29148 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 31119
Nessus Name: Kerio MailServer < 6.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: MailServer 6.4.1

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02/19/2008 🔍
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08/05/2019 +1603 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: kerio.com

Advisory: vupen.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-0859 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-0859
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-41149
X-Force: 40650
SecurityFocus: 27868 - Kerio MailServer Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 29021
OSVDB: 42126 - Kerio MailServer uudecode decoding code execution
SecurityTracker: 1019428
Vulnerability Center: 17713 - Kerio MailServer Uuencoded Input Decoding Errors Allow Remote Code Execution and DoS, High
Vupen: ADV-2008-0594

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 13:43
Updated: 08/05/2019 21:10
Changes: 03/16/2015 13:43 (67), 08/05/2019 21:10 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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