ID CVE-2001-0894
Summary Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-09-06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-09-06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-12-31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:1999-12-31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:2000-02-28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:wietse_venema:postfix:2000-02-28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 5.0 (as of 10-10-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE NONE PARTIAL
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2001:156
refmap via4
bid 3544
bugtraq 20011115 Postfix session log memory exhaustion bugfix
conectiva CLA-2001:439
debian DSA-093
mandrake MDKSA-2001:089
xf postfix-smtp-log-dos(7568)
Last major update 10-10-2017 - 01:29
Published 11-11-2001 - 05:00
Last modified 10-10-2017 - 01:29
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