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CVE-2004-0104 (GCVE-0-2004-0104)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-02-19 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10
VLAI
Summary
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Metamail 2.7 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-449 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9692 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/10908 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-073.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107713476911429&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2004-02-18 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.