Vulnerability in Wietse Venema Postfix
CVE-2001-0894
Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.
EPSS: 0.019 (77.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Wietse_venema Postfix — versions 1999-09-06, 1999-12-31, 2000-02-28
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CONECTIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)