National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2580

Overview

The SMTP service (MESMTPC.exe) in MailEnable 3.x and 4.25 does not properly perform a length check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long (1) email address in the MAIL FROM command, or (2) domain name in the RCPT TO command, which triggers an "unhandled invalid parameter error."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024427

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024427

External Source: BID

Name: 43182

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43182

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100913 Secunia Research: MailEnable SMTP Service Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/513648/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mailenable.com/Professional-ReleaseNotes.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.mailenable.com/Professional-ReleaseNotes.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mailenable.com/Enterprise-ReleaseNotes.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.mailenable.com/Enterprise-ReleaseNotes.txt

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-112/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-112/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41175

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41175