Description
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276946 ↗
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276628 ↗
- http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:074 ↗
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5002 ↗
- http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html ↗
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php ↗