Denial of Service Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP Server

CVE-2001-0894 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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