Navigation Bar Top Applications Support Documentation Vendors Search Index Top Top

mail-notification -- denial-of-service vulnerability

Description:

Caused by an untested return value, and a resulting null pointer dereference, it is possible for an attacker to crash the application. However, the attacker must first hijack the connection between Mail Notification and the Gmail or IMAP server.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: mail-notification -- denial-of-service vulnerability

Disclaimer: The data contained on this page is derived from the VuXML document, please refer to the the original document for copyright information. The author of portaudit makes no claim of authorship or ownership of any of the information contained herein.

If you have found a vulnerability in a FreeBSD port not listed in the database, please contact the FreeBSD Security Officer. Refer to "FreeBSD Security Information" for more information.


Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>