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CVE-2001-0894

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2001-11-11 Modified: 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 Platforms

Wietse Venema Postfix

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References