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CVE-2010-2725

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

BarnOwl before 1.6.2 does not check the return code of calls to the (1) ZPending and (2) ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Barnowl: through 1.6.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.2.1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+14)

References

• http://barnowl.mit.edu/wiki/release-notes/1.6.2
• http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.6.2/ChangeLog
• http://barnowl.mit.edu/wiki/release-notes/1.6.2
• http://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.6.2/ChangeLog

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