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CVE-2001-0894

Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remo…

Impact

Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server before 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Wietse VenemaPostfix
Versions 1999-09-06, 1999-12-31, 2000-02-28

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