__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN 602pro Lan Suite 2003 Vulnerability [US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#445313] June 28, 2007 17:00 GMT Number R-286 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: 602pro Lan Suite 2003 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code. PLATFORM: 602pro Lan Suite 2003 DAMAGE: May allow an attacker to execute code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to 602 LAN Suite 2004. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is HIGH. An intruder could run arbitrary code as root ASSESSMENT: by sending a carefully crafted email to the server. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-286.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/445313 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#445313 *****] Vulnerability Note VU#445313 602pro Lan Suite 2003 buffer overflow vulnerability Overview 602pro Lan Suite 2003 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code. I. Description 602pro Lan Suite 2003 is a mail, firewall and proxy server that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system. The 602pro Lan Suite 2003 SMTP server contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted email through the SMTP component of a vulnerable server. II. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial-of-service condition. III. Solution Upgrade The vendor has stated that this issue is addressed in 602 LAN Suite 2004. Restrict access Disabling or restricting access to the SMTP server will mitigate this vulnerability. See the 602pro Lan Suite 2003 administrator manual for details on how to configure the SMTP service. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Software602, Inc. Vulnerable 27-Jun-2007 References http://download.software602.com/pdf/lns/2003/ls2003_manual.pdf http://www.software602.com/products/ls/ http://secunia.com/advisories/25429/ Credit Thanks to David Barker of Electrosonics for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Ryan Giobbi. Other Information Date Public 06/12/2007 Date First Published 06/27/2007 04:48:46 PM Date Last Updated 06/27/2007 CERT Advisory CVE Name Metric 2.95 Document Revision 19 [***** End US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#445313 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of US-CERT for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. 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