CVE-2005-0101 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 16.2% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 16.17% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2005-02-01 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| newspost | newspost |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Newspost 2.1 - 'socket_getline()' Remote Buffer Overflow (2) | 2005-02-03 |
| exploit-db | Newspost 2.0/2.1 - Remote Buffer Overflow | 2005-02-01 |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
- http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
- http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
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