7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-1118

Published: 31/12/2003 Updated: 11/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote malicious users 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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Exploits

/* Seti@Home exploit by zillion[at]safemodeorg (2003/01/07) Credits for the vulnerability go to: SkyLined <SkyLined@eduptudelftnl> spoor12eduptudelftnl/SkyLined%20v42/?Advisories/Seti@home Use this exploit in combination with a DNS spoofing utility such as the one provided in the Dsniff package naughtym ...