Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

BID:4908

Info

Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4908
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 01 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 01 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability discovery credited to 3APA3A <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Double Precision Incorporated Courier MTA 0.38.1
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- IBM AIX 4.3.3
- IBM AIX 4.3.2
- IBM AIX 4.3.1
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 5.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0 ppc
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5.2
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5.1
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.9
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.8
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.6
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 3.1
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 3.0
- Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
- Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 ia64
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 7.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.1 x86
- SuSE Linux 7.1 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.1 alpha
- SuSE Linux 7.0 sparc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 ppc
- SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.0 alpha
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Courier MTA is a freely available, open source mail transport agent (MTA). It is developed and maintained by Double Precison, Incorporated, and works with various Unix and Linux Operating Systems.

Under some circumstances, it may be possible to cause a denial of service in the MTA. The problem occurs when handling messages by users that contain an excessively large year. This bug could result in resource consumption on the system using the affected MTA, and potentially a denial of service.

Exploit / POC

Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Solution:
This vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in the Courier CVS tree.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Courier MTA Long Year Remote Resource Consumption Vulnerability

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