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CVE-2001-0894

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/11/2001
Last modified:
10/10/2017

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-09-06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-12-31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:2000-02-28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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