PT-2002-2443 · Altermime · Altermime

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2024-02-15 · CVE-2002-1721

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions alterMIME versions 0.1.10 through 0.1.11

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. This is achieved via an x-header that causes snprintf to overwrite the FFGET FILE variable with a (null) byte.

Recommendations For alterMIME versions 0.1.10 and 0.1.11, consider restricting access to the snprintf function until a patch is available to prevent the denial of service. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-193

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1721

Affected Products

Altermime

References · 5

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4650 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1721 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8992 · Note
• http://pldaniels.com/altermime/CHANGELOG · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/71665 · Telegram Post