CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-1118

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-12-31
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 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.

Affected configurations

• university of california seti at home 3.3 • university of california seti at home 3.4 • university of california seti at home 3.5 • university of california seti at home 3.6 • university of california seti at home 3.7

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