CVE-2002-2295

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Pico Server (pServ) 2.0 beta 1 through beta 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a 1024-byte TCP stream message, which triggers an off-by-one buffer overflow, or (2) a long method name in an HTTP request, (3) a long version number in an HTTP request, (4) a long User-Agent header, or (5) a long file path.

Affected products

Pico Server: 2.0_beta_1, 2.0_beta_2, 2.0_beta_3, 2.0_beta_5

References

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2002-11/0457.html
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-12/0005.html
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6Q0020A6AS.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6283
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6284
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6285
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10734
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10783
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10789
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2002-11/0457.html
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-12/0005.html
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6Q0020A6AS.html

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