MDaemon POP3 server remote buffer overflow (preauth)
INFIGO IS Security Advisory #ADV-2006-08-04
http://www.infigo.hr/
Title: MDaemon POP3 server remote buffer overflow (preauth)
Advisory ID: INFIGO-2006-08-04
Date: 2006-08-21
Advisory URL: http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/advisories/INFIGO-2006-08-04
Impact: Remote code execution (preauth)
Risk Level: High
Vulnerability Type: Remote
Vendors Status: Vendor contacted on 4th May 2006
==[ Overview
MDaemon Server is a standards-based SMTP/POP/IMAP mail server that offers a
full range of mail server functionality. MDaemon is designed to manage the
email needs of any number of individual users and comes complete with a
powerful set of integrated tools for managing mail accounts and message
formats. MDaemon offers a scalable SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 mail server
complete with LDAP support, an integrated browser-based email client,
content filtering, spam filters, extensive security features, and more.
MDaemon can be found on http://www.altn.com/.
==[ Vulnerability
During an audit, a critical vulnerability has been discovered in the
MDaemon POP3 server. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in 'USER'
and 'APOP' command processing part of the Altn MDaemon POP3 server.
The vulnerability can be triggered with providing a long string to USER or
APOP commands with '@' characters included in the string. In this case,
MDaemon will incorectly process the string and a heap overflow will happen
as a result. To trigger the vulnerability, a few USER commands have to be
sent to the POP3 Server. Sometimes (depending on the heap state and
string length), it is even possible to redirect code execution directly to
the supplied input buffer on the heap.
==[ Affected Version
The vulnerability has been identified in the latest MDaemon 8/9. All
previous versions are believed to be vulnerable as well.
==[ Fix
Vulnerability is fixed in MDaemon 9.06
==[ PoC Exploit
MDaemon POP3 server remote buffer overflow (preauth) PoC can be
downloaded from http://www.infigo.hr/files/mdaemon_poc.pl .
==[ Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Sasa Jusic <sasa.jusic@xxxxxxxxx> and
Leon Juranic <leon.juranic@xxxxxxxxx>
==[ INFIGO IS Security Contact
INFIGO IS,
WWW : http://www.infigo.hr
E-mail : infocus@xxxxxxxxx