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Vulnerability Assessment Details

MailEnable IMAP Service Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (ME-10025)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks version of MailEnable's MEIMAPS.exe

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote IMAP server is affected by multiple buffer overflows.

Description :

The IMAP server bundled with the version of MailEnable installed on
the remote host reportedly is affected by multiple and as yet
unspecified buffer overflows.

Note that it is not currently known whether the issues listed in
ME-10023 and ME-10025 require authentication or not, but successful
exploitation will permit a possible hacker to crash the service service or to
execute arbitrary code with LOCAL SYSTEM rights.

See also :

http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/

Solution :

Apply Hotfix ME-10025.

Network Security Threat Level:

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

Networks Security ID: 21492, 21493

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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