Vulnerability in University Of California Seti At Home

CVE-2003-1118

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.

EPSS: 0.182 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

University_of_california Seti_at_home — versions 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)