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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.182 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.182 · newest: 0.182 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- University Of California Seti At Home — versions 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
References
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-April/004383.html (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11731 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/7292 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/146785 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)