Title: Sun Solaris MailTool Attachment Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
mailtool is the graphical mail user agent packaged with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). This vulnerability affects the Unix operating system, specifically Sun Solaris.
Under some circumstances, it may be possible to deny service to legitimate users of the tool.
It has been discovered that mailtool does not properly handle some types of attachments. When a maliciously formatted attachment is sent to mailtool, it is possible to crash the program. This could result in a denial of service to legitimate users of the program.
It is speculated that this issue is due to a memory corruption problem within the program. Because of this possibility, this issue may make possible the execution of attacker-supplied code. Any code executed through this vulnerability would be executed in the context of the mailtool user.
Affected Products:
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
References:
- Sun Microsystems: 48216
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