CVE-2002-0900

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in pks PGP public key web server before 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long search argument to the lookup capability.

Buffer overflow in pks PGP public key web server before 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long search argument to the lookup capability.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

MIT PGP Public Key Server

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-04 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:29:00

Affected Software

MIT PGP Public Key Server 0.9.2

0.9.2

MIT PGP Public Key Server 0.9.4

0.9.4

References

20020524 pks public key server DOS and remote execution

pgp-pks-search-bo(9171)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/src/patch_buffoverflow20020525

4828

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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