Pegasus Mail buffer overflow
| pegasus-mail-bo (5644) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Pegasus Mail is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by a buffer overflow. By placing 90KB of data or more into the body of an email message, a remote attacker can overflow a buffer and crash the system. The service must be restarted to regain normal functionality.
Platforms Affected:
- Pmail, Pegasus 3.11
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 15, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Oct 04 2000 - 09:41:35 CDT, Another Pegasus Mail vulnerability at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0061.html.
- BID-1750: Pegasus Mail Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2000-0931: Buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long email message containing binary data.
Reported:
Sep 26, 2000
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