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Re: Buffer overflow in Dovecot or OpenSSL?

From: 3APA3A <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:38:15 +0400

Dear Timo Sirainen,

You're right, the fact EIP points inside the stack should indicate large
problems.  But  the  string  at EIP doesn't look to be shellcode or it's
part. How many entries do you have in the log? Do you have stackdump?

--Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 11:39:23 PM, you wrote to vuln-dev () securityfocus com:

TS> I saw a disturbing message today:

TS> PAX: terminating task: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login(imap-login):13964, uid/euid: 102/102, EIP: 5D0CB8B8, 
ESP: 5D0CB82C
TS> PAX: bytes at EIP: d8 b8 0c 5d 25 14 05 08 f8 9e 06 08 01 00 00 00 20 ca 04 08 


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