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BusinessMail Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for remote buffer overflow vulnerabilities in BusinessMail

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote SMTP server is susceptible to buffer overflow attacks.

Description :

The remote host is running BusinessMail, a commercial mail server for
Windows from NetCPlus.

The version of BusinessMail on the remote host fails to sanitize input
to the 'HELO' and 'MAIL FROM' SMTP commands, which can be exploited by
an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the SMTP service and
possibly even execute arbitrary code within the context of the server
process.

See also :

http://reedarvin.thearvins.com/20050730-01.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-August/035647.html

Solution :

Unknown at this time.

Network Security Threat Level:

Critical / CVSS Base Score : 10
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:C/A:C/I:C/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 14434

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