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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2008-1054 json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _lib_spawn_user_getpid function in (1) swatch.exe and (2) surgemail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and ear…

published 2008-02-27 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1065

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.4%
EPSS 7.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-31301)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-31301 Surgemail 3.0 - Real CGI executables Remote Buffer Overflow dos, 2008-02-25
  • aluigi.altervista.org http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27992 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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