Buffer overflow in Sircd

CVE-2003-1377

Buffer overflow in the reverse DNS lookup of Smart IRC Daemon (SIRCD) 0.4.0 and 0.4.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a client with a long hostname.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 8.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.029 (86.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2003-1377: held from 0.029 to 0.029.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sircd — versions 0.4.0, 0.4.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

References