TITLE:
Metamail Mail Boundary Handling Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18796

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18796/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Metamail 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3053/

DESCRIPTION:
Ulf Harnhammar has reported a vulnerability in Metamail, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling
of boundary headers within an email message. This can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code
execution.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.7. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ulf Harnhammar

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482

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