Description
POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.
Published: 2002-02-02
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2001-0978 POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.
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Pop3lite Pop3lite
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:37:07.089Z

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

Link: CVE-2001-0996

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-09-02T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2001-0996

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