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CVE-2008-7224

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in entity_cache in ELinks before 0.11.4rc0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted link.

Affected products

• Elinks: through 0.11.3; 0.11.1, 0.11.1-1, 0.11.2

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347
• http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html
• http://osvdb.org/41949
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10126
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347
• http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html
• http://osvdb.org/41949
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10126

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