CVE-2002-0909

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4900

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4899

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php

http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS