CVE-2002-2338 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2002-2338

The POP3 mail client in Mozilla 1.0 and earlier, and...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mozilla, communicator, navigator
Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 1.0, 4.0, 4.4, 4.5, 4.06, 4.6, 4.07, 4.7, 4.08, 4.51, 4.61, 4.72, 4.73, 4.74, 4.75, 4.76, 4.77, 6.0, 6.01, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.1, 6.2.2

Timeline

Official Publish: October 29th, 2007
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.