Description
The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and Netscape Communicator 4.7 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (no new mail) via a mail message containing a dot (.) at a newline, which is interpreted as the end of the message.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- MOZILLA
- Published
- 12/31/2002
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
mozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillamozilla : mozillanetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : communicatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigatornetscape : navigator
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