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CVE-2002-1109

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

securetar, as used in AMaViS shell script 0.2.1 and earlier, allows users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR file, possibly via an incorrect file size parameter.

Affected products

• Amavis Virus Scanner: through 0.2.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103124270321404&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10056.php
• http://marc.info/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103124270321404&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10056.php

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