Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-1118 - Remote Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SETI@home Client Program

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

PARTIAL

Integrity impact

PARTIAL

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

low complexity

university-of-california

exploit available

NVD

Published: 2003-12-31

Updated: 2017-07-11

Summary

Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and execute arbitrary code via a spoofed server response containing a long string followed by a \n (newline) character.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	University_Of_California University OF California Seti AT Home 3.3 University OF California Seti AT Home 3.4 University OF California Seti AT Home 3.5 University OF California Seti AT Home 3.6 University OF California Seti AT Home 3.7	5

Exploit-Db

description	SETI@home Clients Buffer Overflow Exploit. CVE-2003-1118. Remote exploit for linux platform
id	EDB-ID:8
last seen	2016-01-31
modified	2003-04-08
published	2003-04-08
reporter	zillion
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/8/
title	SETI@home Clients - Buffer Overflow Exploit

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Exploit-Db

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