CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0909

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• matsushita research mnews (<= 1.2.2)

References