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Becky! Internet Mail Buffer overflow


From: Nobuo Miwa <n-miwa () LAC CO JP>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:44:35 +0900

Hi,

There were some Buffer overflow vulneravilities in
Beckey! Internet Mail software.
  http://www.rimarts.co.jp/index.html

I contacted author and got fix versions.

How:
The problem is Content-Type: header.
Becky! copies Content-Type: value to Becky-char:
header when I reply or forward it to someone.
But if Content-Type: header's value was over 4500
characters, its buffer is overflowed.
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=aaaaaaa...
Its malicious header won't be noticed by users.

Version:
Becky! Internet Mail ver 1.26.03

Fixed version:
Becky! Internet Mail ver 1.26.04
  (for "Reply" bug)
Becky! Internet Mail ver 1.26.05
  (for "Forward" bug)


<Nobuo Miwa> n-miwa () lac co jp    ( @ @ )  Team SNS (Secure Net Service)
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http://www.lac.co.jp/security/


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