[SA18975] POPFile Email Message Handling Denial of Service

TITLE:
POPFile Email Message Handling Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18975

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
POPFile 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8275/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of email
messages containing certain character sets. This can be exploited to
crash the service when a malicious email message is downloaded.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.22.3. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.22.4.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63137

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes/0.22.4

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