Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-0909 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in MNews

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
matsushita-research
NVD
Published: 2002-10-04
Updated: 2016-10-18

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Matsushita_Research
1

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