PT-2002-1900 · Qpopper · Qpopper

Published 2002-10-04 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2002-0889

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Qpopper versions 4.0.4 and earlier

Description: A buffer overflow issue exists, allowing local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long bulldir argument in the user's .qpopper-options configuration file.

Recommendations: For Qpopper versions 4.0.4 and earlier, consider updating to a version that fixes this issue, as no specific workaround is provided for these versions. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-0889

Affected Products

Qpopper

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0889 · Security Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/8949.php · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4614 · Vendor Advisory
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269969 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102003707432457&w=2 · Note