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TITLE:
Becky! Internet Mail Read Receipt Request Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33892

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33892/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Becky! Internet Mail 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18917/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Becky! Internet Mail, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling
read receipt requests. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow when the user agrees to return a receipt message for a
specially crafted e-mail.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

This vulnerability is reported in version 2.48.02 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.50.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
JVN credits Yuji Ukai of Fourteenforty Research Institute, Inc

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN29641290/index.html

RimArts Inc:
http://www.rimarts.jp/downloads/B2/Readme-e.txt

IPA:
http://www.ipa.go.jp/security/vuln/documents/2009/200902_becky.html

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