PT-2002-3050 · Mozilla+1 · Mozilla Firefox+1

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2002-2338

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 Mozilla versions 1.0 and earlier Netscape Communicator versions 4.7 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically preventing the display of new mail, by sending a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline. This dot is incorrectly interpreted as the end of the message.

Recommendations For Mozilla versions 1.0 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.0 to resolve the issue. For Netscape Communicator versions 4.7 and earlier, update to a version later than 4.7 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-2338

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox

Netscape Communicator

References · 9

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/21539 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/5002 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-2338 · Security Note
• http://mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:074 · Vendor Advisory
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276628 · Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/9343.php · Note
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/276946 · Note
• http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html · Note