Description
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.
Published: 2002-08-31
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 2.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0900 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.
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Matsushita Research Mnews
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:49.274Z

Reserved: 2002-08-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0909

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Status : Modified

Published: 2002-10-04T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:58:22.273

Link: CVE-2002-0909

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