Vulnerability CVE-2001-0996


Published: 2001-09-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Pop3lite -> Pop3lite 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-08/0436.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3278
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7075

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