CVE-2002-0909

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local users can gain privileges via long command line arguments (2) -f, (3) -n, (4) -D, (5) -M, or (6) -P, or via long environment variables (7) JNAMES or (8) MAILSERVER.

Affected products

Matsushita Research Mnews: through 1.2.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4900
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0287.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9226.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9227.php

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