PT-2003-2072 · Seti@Home · Seti@Home Client

Berend-Jan Wever · Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2003-1118

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SETI@home client versions 3.03 and other versions

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a client crash, and potentially execute arbitrary code. This is achieved by sending a spoofed server response containing a long string followed by a newline character.

Recommendations For version 3.03 and other affected versions, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1118

Affected Products

Seti@Home Client

References · 6

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/8 · Exploit
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/146785 · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/7292 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1118 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11731 · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-April/004383.html · Note