COMMAND
WebShield
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
McAfee WebShield SMTP
PROBLEM
Jari Helenius found following. McAfee WebShield SMTP v4.5 have
at least two vulnerabilities. One with content filter and other
with smtp recepient field (DoS). Network Associates has been
informed 7.11.2000 (cont filt) and 17.11.2000 (recepient field).
Vulnerability occures at least NT4sp5 and sp6 installations.
Mailformed SMTP recepient field
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If recepient field is mailformed, ie in recepient field is
shop@liverpoolfc.net?subject=Please%20send%20new%20catalogue&body=Please%20include%20your%20name%20and%20address
WebShield will crash with access violation error. Restarting
service results immediate crash. This produses DoS and leaves
posibility of buffer overflow.
Content filter let mail pass against filter rules
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Content filter has been set up to stop messages with attachments
that have ".exe" in attachment name. If attachment name includes
special characters like € (euro sign) or scandinavian characters
like ä, å or ö) (name like bad€name.exe) content filter won't
stop message but let's it throug.
Such attachments are still checked against known viruses and mail
that contains known virus will be stopped.
SOLUTION
Nothing yet.