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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11650
Category:Denial of Service
Title:MAILsweeper PowerPoint DoS
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is running MAILsweeper - a content security solution
for SMTP.

There is a flaw in the remote version of MAILsweeper which may allow
an attacker to disable this service by sending a malformed PowerPoint
file to any recipient through this SMTP server.

While processing the file, the server will enter into an infinite
loop which will consume all available CPU resources on this host.

*** Nessus did not actually test for this flaw - it just relied
*** on the banner to identify them. Therefore, this warning may be
*** a false positive

Solution : Upgrade to MAILsweeper 4.3.15 or newer
Risk factor : Medium

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 10937
BugTraq ID: 7562
CopyrightThis script is Copyright (C) 2003 Tenable Network Security

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