CVE-2002-2338

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 3.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDOct 29

1st PoCJun 12

exploitation probability

3.9%top 11% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/21539

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References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228 http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276628 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:074 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276946 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5002