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POPFile Email Message Handling Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA18975
Release Date: 2006-02-23
Last Update: 2006-02-27
Popularity: 6,936 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:POPFile 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in POPFile, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of email messages containing certain character sets. This can be exploited to crash the service when a malicious email message is downloaded.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.22.3. Prior versions may also be affected.

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