cve-2002-2338
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-10-29 19:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:06
Severity ?
Summary
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228
cve@mitre.orghttp://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276628
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:074
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276946
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5002Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276628
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:074
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276946
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5002Exploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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