[Sec-1 Ltd] Advisory: MailMarshal Spam Quarantine Password Retrieval Vulnerability

["Gary Oleary-Steele" <garyo () sec-1 com>]

                           SEC-1 LTD.

                         www.sec-1.com

                       Security Advisory

Advisory Name:  MailMarshal Spam Quarantine Password Retrieval 
                        Vulnerability

 Release Date:  17-06-2007
  Application:  MailMarshal SMTP 6.2.0.x
  
     Platform:  Microsoft Windows 
     Severity:  Password Retrieval
       Author:  Gary O'leary-Steele 
     Reported:  See time line section below
Vendor status:  Fix Available
CVE Candidate:  CVE-2007-3796
    Reference:  http://www.sec-1.com/


Overview from www.mailmarshal.com: 

MailMarshal SMTP is a total email content security solution for business
networks. It combines anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-porn
and
content security into a highly scalable and easily manageable solution.
MailMarshal enables you to meet your corporate obligation to provide a
safe and secure environment for your employees. It also enables you to
meet
your obligation to effectively monitor and manage your organization's
compliance with relevant corporate governance and legislative regulatory
frameworks.


Vulnerability Summary:

The Spam Quarantine HTTP interface password reset facility is vulnerable

to a SQL buffer truncation attack. The vulnerability could be exploited 
to reset and retrieve any user account. The attacker would require prior

knowledge of the users email address.


Vulnerability Details:

A technical analysis of the vulnerability is included within our
"Buffer Truncation in Microsoft SQL Server Based Applications 1.1" paper


http://www.sec-1labs.co.uk/advisories/BTA_Full.pdf


Time Line:

24/05/2007      Reported
12/07/2007      Fix Available


Vendor Status: 

This issue has been resolved in version 6.2.1. See the change history
for further
details.

http://www.marshal.com/software/mailmarshal_smtp/MailMarshalSMTP-Release
Notes-6.2.1.3252.htm#Change%20History


Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Information:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
the following names to these issues.  These are candidates for 
inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes 
names for security problems.


CVE-2007-3796

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