From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 04:49:42 CDT

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TITLE:
sSMTP Format String Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11378

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11378/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
sSMTP 2.x

DESCRIPTION:
Max Vozeler has reported two vulnerabilities in sSMTP, allowing
malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to format string errors within the
"die()" and "log_event()" functions. This can be exploited to crash
the server and potentially execute arbitrary code by including format
specifiers in certain parameters.

SOLUTION:
Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Max Vozeler

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