Vulnerability CVE-2005-0101
Published: 2005-02-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Newspost -> Newspost 

 References:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19178
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14092/
http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110746336728781&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12418
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013056
http://secunia.com/advisories/14098
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