PT-2005-1727 · Hashcash · Hashcash

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2005-03-06 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-0687

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 Hashcash version 1.16

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory consumption and possibly execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through format string specifiers in a reply address that is not properly handled when printing the header.

Recommendations For Hashcash version 1.16, update to a version that properly handles format string specifiers in reply addresses to prevent denial of service and potential code execution.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0687

Affected Products

Hashcash

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0687 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0687 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0687 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14487 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0687 · Vendor Advisory