CVE-2002-0909 Information

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.

Reference

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