Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in no-brainer SMTP client, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
no-brainer SMTP Client "log_msg" Format String Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16279
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16279/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
no-brainer SMTP (nbSMTP) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5468/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in no-brainer SMTP client, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in the
"log_msg()" function and can potentially be exploited to execute
arbitrary code via a specially crafted string containing format
specifiers.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is tricked into
connecting to a malicious SMTP server.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.00.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Niels Heinen.
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