CVE-2003-0478

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in (1) Bahamut IRCd 1.4.35 and earlier, and other IRC daemons based on Bahamut including (2) digatech 1.2.1, (3) methane 0.1.1, (4) AndromedeIRCd 1.2.3-Release, and (5) ircd-RU, when running in debug mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a request containing format strings.

Affected products

Andromede Adromedeircd: 1.2.3
Bahamut Ircd: through 1.4.35
Daniel Moss Methane: 0.1.1
Hans Westerhof Digatech: 1.2.1
Wenet Ircd-Ru: all versions

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105665996104723&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105673489525906&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105673555726823&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105665996104723&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105673489525906&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105673555726823&w=2

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