Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-7182 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Netwin Surgemail 3.9E
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in the IMAP service in NetWin Surgemail 3.9e, and possibly other versions before 3.9g2, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the APPEND command, a different vector than CVE-2008-1497 and CVE-2008-1498. NOTE: due to lack of details, it is not certain whether this is the same issue as CVE-2008-2859.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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 39e-1 Post Auth IMAP Remote Buffer Overflow DoS. CVE-2008-2859,CVE-2008-7182. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| file | exploits/windows/dos/5968.py |
| id | EDB-ID:5968 |
| last seen | 2016-01-31 |
| modified | 2008-06-30 |
| platform | windows |
| port | |
| published | 2008-06-30 |
| reporter | Travis Warren |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/5968/ |
| title | Surgemail 39e-1 Post Auth IMAP Remote Buffer Overflow DoS |
| type | dos |
Nessus
| NASL family | Misc. |
| NASL id | SURGEMAIL_IMAP_COMMAND_UNSPECIFIED_DOS.NASL |
| description | According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of the SurgeMail Mail Server older than 3.9g2. The IMAP service in such versions is reportedly affected by remote denial of service vulnerabilities when handling an APPEND command with a large parameter. An authenticated attacker can leverage this issue to crash the remote application. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 33277 |
| published | 2008-06-30 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33277 |
| title | SurgeMail IMAP Service APPEND Command Remote DoS |
| code | |