TITLE:
QmailAdmin "PATH_INFO" Handling Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19262

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19262/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
QmailAdmin 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1921/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in QmailAdmin, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of the "PATH_INFO" environment variable in "qmailadmin.c".
This can potentially be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a
specially-crafted URL request.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.9. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in development version 1.2.10.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=6691&release_id=395211
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/qmailadmin/qmailadmin/qmailadmin.c?r1=1.6.2.10&r2=1.6.2.11

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