Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > November 5 to 11, 2001

Overview

3 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 0 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 2 products from 2 vendors including Netfilter, and Wietse Venema. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Information Exposure", and "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 3 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Netfilter has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

TOTAL
VULNERABILITIES
CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
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LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

2 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-11-11 CVE-2001-0894 Wietse Venema Denial Of Service vulnerability in Wietse Venema Postfix 19990906/19991231/20000228

Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
5.0
2001-11-05 CVE-2001-1388 Netfilter Allocation of Resources Without Limits OR Throttling vulnerability in Netfilter Iptables

iptables before 1.2.4 does not accurately convert rate limits that are specified on the command line, which could allow attackers or users to generate more or less traffic than intended by the administrator.
5.0

1 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-11-05 CVE-2001-1387 Netfilter Information Exposure vulnerability in Netfilter Iptables

iptables-save in iptables before 1.2.4 records the "--reject-with icmp-host-prohibited" rule as "--reject-with tcp-reset," which causes iptables to generate different responses than specified by the administrator, possibly leading to an information leak.
2.1