Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-1054 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Netwin Surgemail

CVSS 6.4 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

PARTIAL

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

low complexity

netwin

CWE-119

exploit available

NVD

Published: 2008-02-27

Updated: 2018-10-11

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _lib_spawn_user_getpid function in (1) swatch.exe and (2) surgemail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier, and beta 39a, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with multiple long headers to webmail.exe and unspecified other CGI executables, which triggers an overflow when assigning values to environment variables. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Netwin Netwin Surgemail 1.8A Netwin Surgemail 1.8B3 Netwin Surgemail 1.8D Netwin Surgemail 1.8E Netwin Surgemail 1.8G3 Netwin Surgemail 1.9 Netwin Surgemail 1.9B2 Netwin Surgemail 2.0A2 Netwin Surgemail 2.0C Netwin Surgemail 2.0E Netwin Surgemail 2.0G2 Netwin Surgemail 2.1A Netwin Surgemail 2.1C7 Netwin Surgemail 2.2A6 Netwin Surgemail 2.2C9 Netwin Surgemail 2.2C10 Netwin Surgemail 2.2G2 Netwin Surgemail 2.2G3 Netwin Surgemail 3.0A Netwin Surgemail 3.0C2 Netwin Surgemail 3.1S Netwin Surgemail 3.8F3 Netwin Surgemail 3.8I Netwin Surgemail 3.8I2 Netwin Surgemail 3.8I3 Netwin Surgemail 38K Netwin Surgemail 38K4	27

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
Overflow Buffers
Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
MIME Conversion
An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Exploit-Db

description	SurgeMail 3.0 Real CGI executables Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2008-1054 . Dos exploit for windows platform
id	EDB-ID:31301
last seen	2016-02-03
modified	2008-02-25
published	2008-02-25
reporter	Luigi Auriemma
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/31301/
title	SurgeMail 3.0 - Real CGI executables Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Exploit-Db

References