CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1054

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2008-02-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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