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CVE-2005-0101

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Newspost: through 2.1.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
• http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
• http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19178
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
• http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/

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