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Denial of service to NT mail servers including Ipswitch,...

High severity Unreviewed Published Apr 30, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Denial of service to NT mail servers including Ipswitch, Mdaemon, and Exchange through a buffer overflow in the SMTP HELO command.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 1, 1998
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 30, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(87th percentile)

Weaknesses

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-1999-0284

GHSA ID

GHSA-v64w-xq9r-xp4x

Source code

No known source code

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