NVD
- Id
- 8608
- Name
- CVE-2011-1720
- Description
- The SMTP server in Postfix before 2.5.13, 2.6.x before 2.6.10, 2.7.x before 2.7.4, and 2.8.x before 2.8.3, when certain Cyrus SASL authentication methods are enabled, does not create a new server handle after client authentication fails, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid AUTH command with one method followed by an AUTH command with a different method.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 6.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 6.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-07
- Published
- 2011-05-13
- Modified Date
- 2016-12-07
- Seq
- 2011-1720