CVE-2002-0454 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Qpopper (aka in.qpopper or popper) 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a very large string, which causes an infinite loop.

Published: 2003-04-02

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 5.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:qpopper:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:qpopper:4.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:qpopper:4.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:qpopper:4.0.3:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0451	Qpopper (aka in.qpopper or popper) 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a very large string, which causes an infinite loop.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05479.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/qpopper4.0.4.tar.gz
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8458.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/262213
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4295

History

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Subscriptions

Qualcomm Qpopper

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:49:28.495Z

Reserved: 2002-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0454

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0454

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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