CVE-2003-1557 (GCVE-0-2003-1557)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-04 01:00
Modified
2024-08-08 02:35
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Off-by-one buffer overflow in spamc of SpamAssassin 2.40 through 2.43, when using BSMTP mode ("-B"), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email containing headers with leading "." characters.
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