CVE-2007-6059 (GCVE-0-2007-6059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-20 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Javamail does not properly handle a series of invalid login attempts in which the same e-mail address is entered as username and password, and the domain portion of this address yields a Java UnknownHostException error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool exhaustion) via a large number of requests, resulting in a SQLNestedException. NOTE: Sun disputes this issue, stating "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/45299 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-11-16 00:00
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