cve/2002/CVE-2002-0909.md

### [CVE-2002-0909](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0909)
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### Description

Multiple buffer overflows in mnews 1.22 and earlier allow (1) a remote NNTP server to execute arbitrary code via long responses, or local users can gain privileges via long command line arguments (2) -f, (3) -n, (4) -D, (5) -M, or (6) -P, or via long environment variables (7) JNAMES or (8) MAILSERVER.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102306166201275&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102297259123103&w=2

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.