CVE-2002-0914

published 2002-10-04

CVE-2002-0914: Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a message with an extremely large or negative…

Priority P4 12 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a message with an extremely large or negative value for the year, which causes a tight loop.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	courier	< courier 0.46 (bookworm)	courier 0.46 (bookworm)
double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	—	—
double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	>= 0 < 0.46	0.46
double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	>= 0 < 0.46	0.46
double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	>= 0 < 0.46	0.46
double_precision_incorporated	courier_mta	>= 0 < 0.46	0.46

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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