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PUBLISHED DATE: September 22, 1998CVE-1999-1265:
Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS:
5
EPSS:
73.90%
Exploitability:
10
In KEV:
No
Description

SMTP server in SLmail 3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed commands whose arguments begin with a "(" (parenthesis) character, such as (1) SEND, (2) VRFY, (3) EXPN, (4) MAIL FROM, (5) RCPT TO.

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