Vulnerability CVE-2005-0687
Published: 2005-03-06   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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
Hashcash -> Hashcash 

 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
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