CVE-2006-6291 (GCVE-0-2006-6291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-05 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:19
VLAI
Summary
Stack overflow in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.83 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable Enterprise 1.1 through 1.40 and 2.0 through 2.33, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument containing * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) characters to the DELETE command, as addressed by the ME-10020 hotfix.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017276 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4778 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/23080 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21362 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017319 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453118/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/ x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2006-11-30 00:00
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