CVE-2007-6059

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Oracle
Status
Javamail
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 November 2007

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.

References

http://osvdb.org/45299
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/02...
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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