NNTP Line Overflow

This protocol anomaly is an NNTP message line that is too long. The NNTP RFC defines 512 as the maximum number of characters, including the end-of-line terminator characters <CR><LF>.

Extended Description

The Microsoft Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Component is prone to a buffer overflow condition. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote code execution in the context of the process accessing the vulnerable component.

Affected Products

Avaya s8100_media_servers,Microsoft exchange_server_2000

References

BugTraq: 11379

CVE: CVE-2004-0574

Short Name
NNTP:OVERFLOW:LINE-OVERFLOW
Severity
Major
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
NNTP
Keywords
CVE-2004-0574 bid:11379
Release Date
04/22/2003
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3336
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Microsoft

Avaya

CVSS Score

10.0

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