CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0709

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2003-10-20
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

Buffer overflow in the whois client, which is not setuid but is sometimes called from within CGI programs, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command line option.

Affected configurations

• whois whois 4.5.7 • whois whois 4.6.6

References

http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2925/ Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2925/ Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory