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Mercur v5.0 IMAP SP3 SELECT Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Mar 17, 2006
Created
May 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

Jacopo Cervini [email protected]

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/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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