ZDI-07-001: QUALCOMM Eudora WorldMail Remote Management Heap Overflow
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-001.html 
January  5, 2007

-- CVE ID:
CVE-2006-6336

-- Affected Vendor:
QUALCOMM

-- Affected Products:
Eudora WorldMail 3.1.x Mail Management Server

-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability since December 12, 2006 by Digital Vaccine protection
filter ID 4689. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:

http://www.tippingpoint.com 

-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Eudora WorldMail. Authentication is not
required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists during the parsing of successive delimiters
within the Mail Management Server, MAILMA.exe, listening on TCP port
106. Processing a maliciously crafted request can result in an
exploitable heap corruption.

-- Vendor Response:
QUALCOMM will not be addressing this issue with a software patch and
instead recommends that administrators block access to the affected
port from untrusted sources at the network level.

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2006.09.15 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.12.12 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2007.01.05 - Public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by Leon Juranic, INFIGO IS.

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