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CVE-2005-0101

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-02-01 newspost -- server response buffer overflow vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-0101
Phase Assigned(20050118)

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.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20050202 RE: SECURITEY.NNOV.RU NewsPost buffer overflow [EXPLOIT]
MISC http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
CONFIRM http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
GENTOO GLSA-200502-05
BID 12418
SECTRACK 1013056
SECUNIA 14092
SECUNIA 14098
XF newspost-socketgetline-bo(19178)