CVE-2008-1054

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _lib_spawn_user_getpid function in (1) swatch.exe and (2) surgemail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier, and beta 39a, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with multiple long headers to webmail.exe and unspecified other CGI executables, which triggers an overflow when assigning values to environment variables. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

NetWin SurgeMail: 1.8a, 1.8b3, 1.8d, 1.8e, 1.8g3, 1.9 (+21)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29105
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3705
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488741/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27992
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019500
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0678
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40834
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29105
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3705
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488741/100/0/threaded

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