CVE-2005-0687

critical

Description

Format string vulnerability in Hashcash 1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a reply address, which is not properly handled when printing the header.

References

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/14487

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-03-06

Updated: 2008-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical