CVE-2002-1090

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Libesmtp: through 0.8.11

References

http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ChangeLog.txt
http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ChangeLog.txt

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