CVE-2003-0899 (GCVE-0-2003-0899)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-10-30 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:05
VLAI?
Summary
Buffer overflow in defang in libhttpd.c for thttpd 2.21 to 2.23b1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests that contain '<' or '>' characters, which trigger the overflow when the characters are expanded to "<" and ">" sequences.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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