Courier MTA long year denial of service
| courier-mta-year-dos (9228) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Courier is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a mail message containing an unusually large year. A remote attacker could send a mail message containing an unusually large year to cause the recipient's mail client to enter into a loop that would result in 100% CPU usage.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Courier (0.38.2 or later), as listed in the SourceForge.net Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sat Jun 01 2002 - 07:14:15 CDT: SECURITY.NNOV: Courier CPU exhaustion + bonus on imap-uw.
- Courier Web site: Courier Mail Server.
- SECURITY.NNOV Advisory - May, 31 2002: Courier CPU exhaustion.
- SourceForge.net: SourceForge.net: File Release Notes and Changelog.
- BID-4908: Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0914: Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a message with an extremely large or negative value for the year, which causes a tight loop.
- OSVDB ID: 5052: Double Precision Courier MTA Invalid Year DoS
Platforms Affected:
- Double Precision Courier 0.38.1
Reported:
May 31, 2002
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