CVE-2002-0909
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.
Scoring
- CVSS base score
- 0.04
- EPSS probability
- 1.09%
- Published
- 2002-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-03-16
Affected products
- n/a n/a