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CVE-2003-1118

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/12/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and execute arbitrary code via a spoofed server response containing a long string followed by a \n (newline) character.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_california:seti_at_home:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_california:seti_at_home:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_california:seti_at_home:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_california:seti_at_home:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_california:seti_at_home:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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