Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0876 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in POPFile

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
popfile
nessus

Summary

POPFile before 0.22.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors involving character sets within e-mail messages.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Popfile
4

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-1061.NASL
descriptionIt has been discovered that popfile, a bayesian mail classifier, can be forced into a crash through malformed character sets within email messages, which allows denial of service.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id22603
published2006-10-14
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22603
titleDebian DSA-1061-1 : popfile - missing input sanitising