POP3Lite "dot" message injection
| pop3lite-dot-message-injection (7075) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
POP3Lite could allow a remote attacker to inject messages or cause messages to be lost, which could allow the attacker to launch a mail-spoofing attack or a denial of service attack. This vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the POP3Lite daemon, which causes POP3Lite to fail to properly escape leading "dot" characters (.) from email messages.
Consequences:
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of POP3Lite (0.2.4a or later), available from SourceForge Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Sep 02 2001 - 20:43:45 CDT: POP3Lite 0.2.3b minor client side DoS and message injection.
- SourceForge.net: POP3Lite.
- BID-3278: POP3Lite Input Validation Vulnerability
- CVE-2001-0996: POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.
Platforms Affected:
- Gergely Nagy POP3Lite 0.2.3
- Gergely Nagy POP3Lite 0.2.3b
Reported:
Sep 03, 2001
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