CVE-2006-6291

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack overflow in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.83 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable Enterprise 1.1 through 1.40 and 2.0 through 2.33, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument containing * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) characters to the DELETE command, as addressed by the ME-10020 hotfix.

Affected products

MailEnable: from 1.1 through 1.40; from 1.6 through 1.83; from 2.0 through 2.33

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23080
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017276
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017319
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453118/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21362
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4778
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30614
http://secunia.com/advisories/23080
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017276

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