CVE-2002-0909
HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.8%
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.
- CVSS v2.0
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 2.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 85th percentile
- Published
- 2002-08-31
- Updated
- 2024-08-08