CVE-2004-2495 (GCVE-0-2004-2495)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-10-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:29
VLAI
Summary
The (1) Webmail, (2) admin, and (3) SMTP services in Ability Mail Server 1.18 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of simultaneous connections to the service.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/12039 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10695 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010672 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/7719 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://members.lycos.co.uk/r34ct/main/Ability_mai… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2004-07-11 00:00
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