CVE-2003-0899 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0899 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in defang in libhttpd.c for thttpd 2.21 to 2.23b1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests that contain '<' or '>' characters, which trigger the overflow when the characters are expanded to "<" and ">" sequences.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 47734 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 47792 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:044, published Friday, Oct 31st 2003 13:04 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:29:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:09:08 2023