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MDaemon < 8.1.4 Remote Overflow

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3634

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.

Description

The remote host is running Alt-N MDaemon, an SMTP/IMAP server for Windows. According to its banner, the version of MDaemon on the remote host is prone to a remote buffer overflow. Versions of Alt-N prior to 8.1.4 are vulnerable. The attacker exploiting this flaw would send a malformed request before the authentication process. Successful exploitation would allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.1.4 or higher.

See Also

http://files.altn.com/MDaemon/Release/RelNotes_en.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 3634

Family: Web Servers

Published: 5/29/2006

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:alt-n:mdaemon

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2646

BID: 18129