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(0day) IBM Lotus Domino IMAP/POP3 Non-Printable Character Expansion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-045: February 7th, 2011

CVE ID

CVSS Score

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

    Lotus Domino

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems with vulnerable installations of IBM Lotus Domino. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the POP3 and IMAP services while processing malformed e-mails. The vulnerable code expands specific non-printable characters within a "mail from" command without allocating adequate space. By providing enough of these characters, memory can be corrupted leading to arbitrary code execution under the context of the SYSTEM user.

Vendor Response

IBM states:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461514


Disclosure Timeline

    2008-08-26 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2011-02-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Anonymous