__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN SurgeMail and WebMail 'Page' Command Vulnerability [Security Focus 27990] February 27, 2008 20:00 GMT Number S-214 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: SurgeMail and WebMail are prone to a remote fomat-string vulnerability because the applications fail to properly sanitize user-supplied input begore including it in the format-specifier argument of a formatted-printing function. PLATFORM: SurveMail 384, beta 39a and earlier Netwin WebMail 3.1s and earlier DAMAGE: Execute arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. A remote attacker may execute arbitrary code ASSESSMENT: with the privileges of the user running the affected applications. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-214.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27990/discuss ADDITIONAL LINK: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27992/discuss ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 27990 *****] SurgeMail and WebMail 'Page' Command Remote Format String Vulnerability SurgeMail and WebMail are prone to a remote format-string vulnerability because the applications fail to properly sanitize user-supplied input before including it in the format-specifier argument of a formatted-printing function. A remote attacker may execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service. This issue affects the following: SurgeMail 38k4, beta 39a and earlier Netwin WebMail 3.1s and earlier Bugtraq ID: 27990 Class: Input Validation Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Feb 25 2008 12:00AM Updated: Feb 26 2008 07:52PM Credit: Luigi Auriemma is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability. Vulnerable: NetWin WebMail 3.1s NetWin SurgeMail 3.0 c2 NetWin SurgeMail 3.0 a NetWin SurgeMail 2.2 g3 NetWin SurgeMail 2.2 g2 NetWin SurgeMail 2.2 c9 NetWin SurgeMail 2.2 c10 NetWin SurgeMail 2.2 a6 NetWin SurgeMail 2.1 c7 NetWin SurgeMail 2.1 a NetWin SurgeMail 2.0 g2 NetWin SurgeMail 2.0 e NetWin SurgeMail 2.0 c NetWin SurgeMail 2.0 a2 NetWin SurgeMail 1.9 b2 NetWin SurgeMail 1.9 NetWin SurgeMail 1.8 g3 NetWin SurgeMail 1.8 e NetWin SurgeMail 1.8 d NetWin SurgeMail 1.8 b3 NetWin SurgeMail 1.8 a NetWin SurgeMail beta 39a NetWin SurgeMail 39a NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 NetWin SurgeMail 3.8f3 [***** End Security Focus 27990 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Focus 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). 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