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CVE-2002-0909

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2002-10-04 Modified: 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 Platforms

Matsushita Research Mnews

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References