CVE-2008-2363

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The PartsBatch class in Pan 0.132 and earlier does not properly manage the data structures for Parts batches, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .nzb file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Pan: through 0.132; 0.105, 0.106, 0.107, 0.108, 0.109, 0.110 (+21)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224051
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535413
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121207185600564&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
http://secunia.com/advisories/31315
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:201
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29421
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446902
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42750
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224051

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