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CVE-2005-2618

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView SDK before 9.2.0, as used in Lotus Notes 6.5.4 and 7.0, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a UUE file containing an encoded file with a long filename handled by uudrdr.dll, (2) a compressed ZIP file with a long filename handled by kvarcve.dll, (3) a TAR archive with a long filename that is extracted to a directory with a long path handled by the TAR reader (tarrdr.dll), (4) an email that contains a long HTTP, FTP, or // link handled by the HTML speed reader (htmsr.dll) or (5) an email containing a crafted long link handled by the HTML speed reader (htmsr.dll).

Affected products

• Autonomy Keyview Export Sdk: all versions
• Autonomy Keyview Filter Sdk: all versions
• Autonomy Keyview Viewer Sdk: all versions
• IBM Lotus Notes: 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.5 (+5)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/16100
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16280
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-32/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-34/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-36/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-37/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-66/advisory/
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015657
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=475&uid=swg21229918
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/884076
• http://www.osvdb.org/23064
• http://www.osvdb.org/23065

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