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CVE-2002-0909
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local users can gain privileges via long command line arguments (2) -f, (3) -n, (4) -D, (5) -M, or (6) -P, or via long environment variables (7) JNAMES or (8) MAILSERVER..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:matsushita_research:mnews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4899
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4900
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2