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MailEnable Webmail Malformed Encoded Quoted-printable Email DoS (CVE-2006-1338)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21118

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Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by a denial of service issue.

Description

The remote host is running MailEnable, a commercial mail server for Windows.

According to its banner, using the webmail service bundled with the version of MailEnable Enterprise Edition on the remote host to view specially-formatted quoted-printable messages reportedly can result in 100% CPU utilization.

Solution

Upgrade to MailEnable Professional Edition 1.73 / Enterprise Edition 1.21 or later.

See Also

http://www.mailenable.com/professionalhistory.asp

http://www.mailenable.com/enterprisehistory.asp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21118

File Name: mailenable_httpmail_qp_dos2.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: remote

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/22/2006

Updated: 7/14/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mailenable:mailenable

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1338

BID: 17161