Charles Kerr Pan 0.13.3 email denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Charles Kerr Pan 0.13.3. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument email leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2003-0855. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Charles Kerr Pan 0.13.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument email with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Pan 0.13.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a news post with a long author email address.

The bug was discovered 10/19/2003. The weakness was published 11/03/2003 as Bug 107025 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.gnome.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0855 since 10/10/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 15 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12429 (RHEL 2.1 : pan (RHSA-2003:312)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13598), Tenable (12429), SecurityFocus (BID 9093†), OSVDB (2855†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-22316†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 12429
Nessus Name: RHEL 2.1 : pan (RHSA-2003:312)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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10/10/2003 🔍
10/19/2003 +9 days 🔍
10/19/2003 +0 days 🔍
11/03/2003 +15 days 🔍
11/03/2003 +0 days 🔍
11/24/2003 +21 days 🔍
12/10/2003 +16 days 🔍
07/06/2004 +209 days 🔍
06/04/2009 +1794 days 🔍
08/15/2014 +1898 days 🔍
09/05/2019 +1847 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 107025
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2003-0855 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0855
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20930
X-Force: 13598
SecurityFocus: 9093 - Pan Long Author Address Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 2855 - RHSA-2003-312-06 - Updated Pan packages fix denial of service vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 22316 - Pan 0.13.3 and Earlier Remote Denial of Service via a News Post with Long Author Address, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 08/15/2014 16:00
Updated: 09/05/2019 10:31
Changes: 08/15/2014 16:00 (70), 09/05/2019 10:31 (5)
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Cache ID: 216:E6D:103

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