TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative

Ipswitch Collaboration Suite Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-06-003: March 13th, 2006

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Ipswitch Collaboration Suite. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability.

This specific flaw exists within the IMAP daemon. A lack of bounds checking during the parsing of long arguments to the FETCH verb can result in an exploitable buffer overflow.

Vendor Response

Ipswitch has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2005-12-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2006-03-13 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Manuel Santamarina Suarez aka 'FistFuXXer'