Vulnerability CVE-2002-2338


Published: 2002-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Netscape -> Communicator 
Netscape -> Navigator 
Mozilla -> Mozilla 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5002
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228

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