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CVE-2005-4846

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Format string vulnerability in Logger.cc for Spey 0.3.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a syslog call.

Affected products

• Spey: 0.3.3

References

• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=514029
• http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?r1=1.5&r2=1.6
• http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?view=log
• http://www.osvdb.org/21327
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=514029
• http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?r1=1.5&r2=1.6
• http://spey.cvs.sourceforge.net/spey/spey/src/Logger.cc?view=log
• http://www.osvdb.org/21327

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