Secunia Research: Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Boundary Errors
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Secunia Research 27/06/2007
- Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Boundary Errors -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 patch 176.
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Less Critical
Impact: Denial of Service
Where: Remote Network
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"Symantec Mail Security for SMTP defends your business from email-
borne threats that can overload your email infrastructure, reduce
employee productivity, and jeopardize confidential information.".
Product Link:
http://www.symantec.com/smb/products/overview.jsp?pcid=mes_sec&pvid=smsmtp50
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered boundary errors in the detection of
executable packers in libdayzero.dll as loaded by the Filter Hub
(filter-hub.exe) of Symantec Mail Security for SMTP. The errors
can be exploited to cause unhandled memory access violations causing
the filter hub service to crash.
The crash will cause the Filter Hub service to restart and attempt to
reprocess the malicious email causing the mail queue to backup.
The functions that detect the "PE-Shield v0.2" and
"ASPack v1.00-1.08.02" both use a value from the executable as an
offset into a buffer with insufficient validation.
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5) Solution
Apply fixes.
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP:
Update to version 5.0.1 and apply patch 181.
Symantec Mail Security Appliance:
Update to version 5.0.0-36 or later.
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6) Time Table
23/03/2007 - Vulnerability discovered.
10/04/2007 - Vendor notified.
11/04/2007 - Vendor response.
27/06/2007 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-1792 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
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