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Mercur v5.0 IMAP SP3 SELECT Buffer Overflow

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Mercur v5.0 IMAP SP3 SELECT Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
03/17/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

Mercur v5.0 IMAP server is prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed size memory buffer. Credit to Tim Taylor for discover the vulnerability.

Author(s)

  • Jacopo Cervini <acaro@jervus.it>

Platform

Windows

Development

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/mercur_imap_select_overflow
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > exploit

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