CVE-2002-0914 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Double Precision Courier e-mail MTA. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a message containing an extremely large or negative year value, leading to excessive CPU consumption due to a tight loop. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.38.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:double_precision_incorporated:courier_mta:0.38.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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