Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0037 - Remote Memory Corruption vulnerability in Noffle
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflows in noffle news server 1.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-244.NASL |
| description | Dan Jacobson noticed a problem in noffle, an offline news server, that leads to a segmentation fault. It is not yet clear whether this problem is exploitable. However, if it is, a remote attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution under the user that calls noffle, probably news. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 15081 |
| published | 2004-09-29 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/15081 |
| title | Debian DSA-244-1 : noffle - buffer overflows |