According to its version number, the version of Courier MTA running on the remote host has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if(description)
{
script_id(12102);
script_version("1.15");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0224");
script_bugtraq_id(9845);
script_name(english:"Courier < 0.45 Multiple Remote Overflows");
script_summary(english:"Checks the version number");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote SMTP server has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its version number, the version of Courier MTA running
on the remote host has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. A
remote attacker could exploit this to crash the service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code." );
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Upgrade to Courier 0.45 or later."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2004/03/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2004/03/11");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/06 11:26:08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SMTP problems");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencie("find_service1.nasl", "smtpserver_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/smtp", 25);
exit(0);
}
#
# The script code starts here
#
include("smtp_func.inc");
port = get_kb_item("Services/smtp");
if(!port) port = 25;
banner = get_smtp_banner(port:port);
if(banner)
{
if ( egrep(pattern:"220.*Courier 0\.([0-9]\.|[0-3][0-9]\.|4[0-4]\.)", string:banner) ) { security_hole(port); exit(0); }
}