VDB-8181 · KB77956 · SA52838

McAfee E-Mail Gateway 7.x Attachment memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee E-Mail Gateway 7.x. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Attachment Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in McAfee E-Mail Gateway 7.x. This affects an unknown code block of the component Attachment Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The weakness was released 04/05/2013 as KB77956 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is shared at kc.mcafee.com. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/23/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (92054†), Secunia (SA52838†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028391†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

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

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: KB77956
Status: Confirmed

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-8181
Secunia: 52838 - McAfee Email Gateway Denial of Service Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 92054
SecurityTracker: 1028391

Entryinfo

Created: 04/08/2013 16:28
Updated: 03/23/2019 08:31
Changes: 04/08/2013 16:28 (41), 03/23/2019 08:31 (7)
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Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216::103

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