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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:49.274Z
Reserved: 2002-08-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2002-0909

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2002-10-04T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2002-0909

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