CVE-2001-0996 Other in n/a
Remote attackers can append arbitrary text to emails, causing mail clients to crash or behave unexpectedly due to improper dot-stuffing in POP3Lite.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2001-0996?
CVE-2001-0996 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Feb 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0996?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pop3lite Pop3lite.
How do I fix CVE-2001-0996?
No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0996 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2001-0996 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-0996 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rhfh-mf7v-c4hp.