PT-2003-1716 · Various Vendors · X.400 Protocol

Published 2003-11-06 · Updated 2005-10-20 · CVE-2003-0565

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: X.400 protocol implementations (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns multiple vulnerabilities in various vendor implementations of the X.400 protocol. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attackers who send an X.400 message containing specific unexpected ASN.1 constructs. This can lead to a denial of service and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code. The NISSC test suite has been used to demonstrate this issue.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0565

Affected Products

X.400 Protocol

References · 3

• http://uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/x400.htm · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0565 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927278 · Note