CVE-2004-0925 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0925?

CVE-2004-0925 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 28 Oct 2004. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Postfix on Mac OS X 10.3.x through 10.3.5, with SMTPD AUTH enabled, does not properly clear the username between authentication attempts, which allows users with the longest username to prevent other valid users from being able to authenticate.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0925?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0925?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0925 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-0925 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0925 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fq92-p8q5-3756.