Description
Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
Published: 2002-06-25
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
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Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2001-0877 Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
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Wietse Venema Postfix
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:37:07.057Z

Reserved: 2002-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0894

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-11-11T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0894

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Publid Date: 2001-11-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-0894 - Bugzilla

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