CVE-2001-0894

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Wietse Venema Postfix: 1999-09-06, 1999-12-31, 2000-02-28

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000439
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2001:089
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100584160110303&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-156.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3544
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7568
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000439
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2001:089
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100584160110303&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-156.html

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