CVE-2002-0909: Matsushita Research Mnews

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Matsushita Research Mnews: up to and including 1.2.2

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.