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IMail IMAP4D Delete Overflow

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Disclosed
Nov 12, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a buffer overflow in the 'DELETE'
command of the IMail IMAP4D service. This vulnerability
can only be exploited with a valid username and password.
This flaw was patched in version 8.14.

Author

spoonm spoonm@no$email.com

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/imap/imail_delete
    msf exploit(imail_delete) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(imail_delete) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(imail_delete) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(imail_delete) > exploit
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