CVE-2008-3429

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in URI processing in HTTrack and WinHTTrack before 3.42-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long URL.

Affected products

Httrack: 0.23-beta-2, 0.24-beta-2, 0.25-beta-2, 0.99-beta-2, 0.996-beta-2, 0.997-beta-2 (+55)
Httrack Winhttrack: through 3.42; 0.23-beta-2, 0.24-beta-2, 0.25-beta-2, 0.99-beta-2, 0.996-beta-2, 0.997-beta-2 (+53)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31323/
http://secunia.com/advisories/31380
http://secunia.com/advisories/31866
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1626
http://www.httrack.com/history.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30425
http://www.venustech.com.cn/NewsInfo/124/2032.Html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2221/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44167
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00707.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00711.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31323/

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