Vulnerabilites related to fedora - newsx
CVE-2008-3252 (GCVE-0-2008-3252)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-07-21 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
Show details on NVD website


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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-07-21 17:41
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat fedora 8
redhat fedora 9
fedora newsx 1.6
fedora newsx 1.6



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