VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-1090

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.96%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-10-04
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in read_smtp_response of protocol.c in libesmtp before 0.8.11 allows a remote SMTP server to (1) execute arbitrary code via a certain response or (2) cause a denial of service via long server responses.

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