Title: University Of Washington IMAP Mailbox Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
University of Washington IMAP is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue is exposed when the application parses mailbox names.
This vulnerability resides in the 'mail_valid_net_parse_work()' function, which is found in the 'src/c-client/mail.c' source file. The vulnerability occurs when the function parses double-quote characters (") in mailbox name strings. Specifically, when the function encounters a double-quote character in the mailbox name, it will continue to copy data into a 1024-byte stack-based buffer until another double-quote character is encountered in the source data. However, if only one double-quote character is encountered, the source data may be copied past the bounds of the finite stack-based buffer. This will cause adjacent regions of stack memory to be corrupted with attacker-supplied data. In this manner, an attacker may be able to overwrite program control variables such as a saved return address.
If successful, an attacker may execute arbitrary code in the context of the server process, which does not run as the superuser. Note that to exploit this issue, the attacker must first authenticate to the service.
Affected Products:
- Avaya CVLAN
- Avaya Converged Communications Server 2.0.0
- Avaya Integrated Management
- Avaya Interactive Response
- Avaya Intuity LX
- Avaya Message Networking
- Avaya Messaging Storage Server
- Avaya S8300 R2.0.0
- Avaya S8300 R2.0.1
- Avaya S8500 R2.0.0
- Avaya S8500 R2.0.1
- Avaya S8700 R2.0.0
- Avaya S8700 R2.0.1
- Avaya S8710 R2.0.0
- Avaya S8710 R2.0.1
- Conectiva Linux 10.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
- Gentoo Linux
- Linux kernel 2.4.19
- Linux kernel 2.4.21
- Linux kernel 2.6.5
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0 amd64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0 x86_64
- RedHat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1.0
- RedHat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1.0 IA64
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Desktop 4.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- RedHat Fedora Core1
- RedHat Fedora Core2
- RedHat Fedora Core3
- RedHat Fedora Core4
- RedHat Linux 7.3.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 9.0.0 i386
- RedHat Stronghold 4.0.0
- S.u.S.E. LINUX 9.1 Personal Edition CD-ROM
- S.u.S.E. Linux 8.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 8.0.0 i386
- S.u.S.E. Linux 8.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Connectivity Server
- S.u.S.E. Linux Database Server
- S.u.S.E. Linux Desktop 1.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server 7
- S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server 8
- S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server 9
- S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server for S/390
- S.u.S.E. Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Office Server
- S.u.S.E. Linux Openexchange Server
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 10.0.0 OSS
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 10.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 10.0.0 OSS
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 7.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 8.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 8.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 1.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Office Server
- S.u.S.E. Open-Enterprise-Server 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8.0.0
- S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.0.0
- S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux School Server for i386
- S.u.S.E. SuSE Linux Standard Server 8.0.0
- SGI ProPack 3.0.0 SP6
- Slackware Linux -current
- Slackware Linux 10.0.0
- Slackware Linux 10.1.0
- Slackware Linux 10.2.0
- Slackware Linux 8.1.0
- Slackware Linux 9.0.0
- Slackware Linux 9.1.0
- Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0.0
- Trustix Secure Linux 2.2.0
- Trustix Secure Linux 3.0.0
- University of Washington imap 2001a
- University of Washington imap 2002
- University of Washington imap 2002b
- University of Washington imap 2002c
- University of Washington imap 2002d
- University of Washington imap 2002e
- University of Washington imap 2004
- University of Washington imap 2004a
- University of Washington imap 2004b
- University of Washington imap 2004c
- University of Washington imap 2004d
- University of Washington imap 2004e
- University of Washington imap 2004f
References:
- Avaya: ASA-2006-160 - php security update (RHSA-2006-0501)
- Red Hat: RHSA-2006:0276-9 - php security update
- Red Hat: RHSA-2006:0549-7 - php security update for Stronghold
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:848-6 - libc-client security update
- RedHat: RHSA-2006:0501-6 - php security update
- RedHat: imap security update
- University of Washington: UW-IMAP Homepage
- iDEFENSE: UW-IMAP Netmailbox Name Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Juniper Networks provides this content via a wide variety of sources and production methods. If notified of errors or omissions in the content of this page, Juniper Networks, at its discretion, will modify or remove the page or leave the content as is, depending on various factors including but not limited to the reputation and authority of the party providing the notification. Please use the contact information displayed elsewhere on this page to report any errors or omissions regarding the content on this page.
