CVE-2004-0179

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in (1) neon 0.24.4 and earlier, and other products that use neon including (2) Cadaver, (3) Subversion, and (4) OpenOffice, allow remote malicious WebDAV servers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.0
Webdav Neon: from 0.19.0 before 0.24.5 — fixed in 0.24.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Webdav Neon 0.24.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2004-Apr/0002.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2004-Apr/0003.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108213873203477&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108214147022626&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11363
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-01.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-04.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-487
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:032
http://www.osvdb.org/5365
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-157.html

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