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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2003-0988 json

Buffer overflow in the VCF file information reader for KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite in KDE 3.1.0 through 3.1.4 allows…

published 2004-02-17 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0978

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.2%
EPSS 6.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in the VCF file information reader for KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite in KDE 3.1.0 through 3.1.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a VCF file.

Patch / fix

  • kdepim RHEL 3 6:3.1.3-3.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:005

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2003-0988 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 kdepim 3.1.3-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 kdepim 3.1.3-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 kdepim 3.1.3-3.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 kdepim 3.1.3-3.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:005
  • Red Hat Linux 9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:006

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Exploit prediction

6.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.