01 Record
CVE-2009-3838
Stack-based buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail (PMail) 4.41 and possibly 4.51 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail (PMail) 4.41 and possibly 4.51 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-11-02 15:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 06:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-11-02
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ea043893847128b68f362c77e690bfbda30d0b1716d2e68819d329076967c1bc
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com36797http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36797
- osvdb.org59261http://osvdb.org/59261
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-3026http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3026
- secunia.com37134http://secunia.com/advisories/37134
- www.securitytracker.com1023075http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023075
- www.securityfocus.com20091022 {PRL} Pegasus Mail client BoFhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507377/100/0/threaded
- www.packetstormsecurity.orghttp://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0910-exploits/pegasusmc-dos.txt
- www.vupen.comhttp://www.vupen.com/exploits/Pegasus_Mail_POP3_Message_Handling_Remote_Buffer_Overflow_Exploit_3026233.php
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compegasus-pop3-bo(53933)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53933