Stack-based buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail (PMail) 4.41 and possibly 4.51 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service…

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail (PMail) 4.41 and possibly 4.51 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long error message.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.2% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 36797 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 59261 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3026 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 37134 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1023075 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20091022 {PRL} Pegasus Mail client BoF (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0910-exploits/pegasusmc-dos.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.vupen.com/exploits/Pegasus_Mail_POP3_Message_Handling_Remote_Buffer_Overflow_Exploit_3026233.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• pegasus-pop3-bo(53933) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:38 UTC.