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MDaemon Mail Server DoS - FIXED

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arvel Hathcock)
Fri May 26 00:09:59 2000

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Date:         Thu, 25 May 2000 13:49:42 -0500
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From: Arvel Hathcock <Arvel@ALTN.COM>
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> Deerfield Communications (the Wingate perpetrators) MDaemon POP
> server is vulnerable to bigass usernames causing a DoS.  MDaemon is a
> mail server package for 95,98,NT and Win2k.  Many systems that run
> Deerfield's World Client web-mail also use MDaemon.
>
> Exploit tested on Win2kpro running MDaemon 3.0.3

Thanks for pointing this out.  We have since fixed this problem in our
mail server.  There are patches and new complete installation archives
which address this problem here:

ftp://ftp.altn.com/MDaemon/Release/

Thanks again!

Arvel Hathcock - CEO Alt-N Technologies
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MDaemon - http://www.mdaemon.com
RelayFax - http://www.relayfax.com
WorldClient - http://www.worldclient.com
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