CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-2338

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla mozilla 0.9.2 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.2.1 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.3 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.4 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.4.1 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.5 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.6 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.7 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.8 • mozilla mozilla 0.9.9 • mozilla mozilla 1.0 • netscape communicator 4.0 • netscape communicator 4.4 • netscape communicator 4.5 • netscape communicator 4.06 • netscape communicator 4.6 • netscape communicator 4.07 • netscape communicator 4.7 • netscape communicator 4.08 • netscape communicator 4.51 • netscape communicator 4.61 • netscape communicator 4.72 • netscape communicator 4.73 • netscape communicator 4.74 • netscape communicator 4.75 • netscape communicator 4.76 • netscape communicator 4.77 • netscape navigator 6.0 • netscape navigator 6.01 • netscape navigator 6.1 • netscape navigator 6.2 • netscape navigator 6.2.1 • netscape navigator 6.2.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References