CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1054
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the _lib_spawn_user_getpid function in (1) swatch.exe and (2) surgemail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier, and beta 39a, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with multiple long headers to webmail.exe and unspecified other CGI executables, which triggers an overflow when assigning values to environment variables. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• netwin surgemail 1.8a
• netwin surgemail 1.8b3
• netwin surgemail 1.8d
• netwin surgemail 1.8e
• netwin surgemail 1.8g3
• netwin surgemail 1.9
• netwin surgemail 1.9b2
• netwin surgemail 2.0a2
• netwin surgemail 2.0c
• netwin surgemail 2.0e
• netwin surgemail 2.0g2
• netwin surgemail 2.1a
• netwin surgemail 2.1c7
• netwin surgemail 2.2a6
• netwin surgemail 2.2c9
• netwin surgemail 2.2c10
• netwin surgemail 2.2g2
• netwin surgemail 2.2g3
• netwin surgemail 3.0a
• netwin surgemail 3.0c2
• netwin surgemail 3.1s
• netwin surgemail 3.8f3
• netwin surgemail 3.8i
• netwin surgemail 3.8i2
• netwin surgemail 3.8i3
• netwin surgemail 38k
• netwin surgemail 38k4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29105 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3705 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488741/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27992 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019500 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0678 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40834 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29105 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3705 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488741/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27992 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019500 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0678 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40834 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com