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.
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
- Netscape 4.x/6.x / Mozilla 0.9.x - Malformed Email POP3 Denial of Service EDB-21539 · dos · Jun 12, 2002 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20020614 Another small DoS on Mozilla <= 1.0 through pop3 mailing-list
- 20020612 Another small DoS on Mozilla <= 1.0 through pop3 mailing-list
- MDKSA-2002:074 vendor-advisory
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144228
- 5002 vdb-entry
- http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html
- mozilla-netscape-pop3-dos(9343) vdb-entry