VUPEN Security - NoticeWare Email Server POP3 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Title : NoticeWare Email Server POP3 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2802
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-399
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-14

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A vulnerability has been identified in NoticeWare Email Server, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing multiple POP3 connections with an overly long argument passed to the "PASS" command, which could be exploited to crash an affected server, creating a denial of service condition.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by rAWjAW.

ChangeLog

2008-10-14 : Initial release

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