Description
Rit Research Labs The Bat! 1.51 for Windows allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an email to a user's account containing a carriage return <CR> that is not followed by a line feed <LF>.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Rit Research Labs 'The Bat!' 1.x - Missing Linefeeds Denial of Service EDB-20783 · dos · Apr 18, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20010421 Re: SECURITY.NNOV: The Bat! <cr> bug mailing-list
- 20010423 Re: SECURITY.NNOV: The Bat! <cr> bug mailing-list
- thebat-pop3-dos(6423) vdb-entry
- 20010418 SECURITY.NNOV: The Bat! <cr> bug mailing-list
- 2636 vdb-entry