PoC Index

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 HIGHAV: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

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

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