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CVE-2002-0914

Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a message with an extremely large or negative value for the year, which causes a tight loop.

Published

2002-10-04T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	0.38.1	Yes

References

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=93065 ([email protected])
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9228.php Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/5052 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4908 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=93065 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9228.php Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/5052 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4908 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)