PT-2003-2385 · Spamprobe · Spamprobe

Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2003-1440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SpamProbe version 0.8a

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending HTML e-mail with newline characters within an href tag. This occurs because certain regular expressions do not properly handle the newline characters.

Recommendations For SpamProbe version 0.8a, consider updating to a newer version that properly handles newline characters within href tags to prevent denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1440

Affected Products

Spamprobe

References · 6

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/6739 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1440 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11247 · Note
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137128 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1006038 · Note