CVE-2002-0909 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2002-08-31

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:matsushita_research:mnews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0900	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01094.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4900

History

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Matsushita Research Mnews

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:49.274Z

Reserved: 2002-08-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0909

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-10-04T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0909

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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