CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0552

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-07-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-07-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Melange Chat server 2.02 allow remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument in the /yell command, (2) long lines in the /etc/melange.conf configuration file, (3) long file names, or possibly other attacks.

Affected configurations

• melange melange chat system 2.0.2 beta 2

References