SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:6739

Info

SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6739
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 30 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 30 2003 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced in the product changelog.
Vulnerable: SpamProbe SpamProbe 0.8 a
Not Vulnerable: SpamProbe SpamProbe 0.8 b

Discussion

SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

A denial of service vulnerability exists in SpamProbe. It has been reported that emails containing newlines within HTML <href> tags may cause SpamProbe to crash. This occurs when parsing the tag with a regular expression.

This issue has been reported to occur on RedHat 8.0. It is not yet known whether SpamProbe is prone to this issue when running on other distributions or operating systems.

Exploit / POC

SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
This issue has been addressed in SpamProbe 0.8b. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.


SpamProbe SpamProbe 0.8 a

References

SpamProbe Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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