Vulnerability CVE-2002-0909
Published: 2002-10-04   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Matsushita research -> Mnews 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4900
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