CVE-2005-0101
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 16.17% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 1 February 2005
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- newspost/newspost
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 16.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (2)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
- http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
- http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.