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critical 10.0

CVE-2001-0233 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in micq client 0.4.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary comma…

published 2001-03-26 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0233

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.6%
EPSS 14.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in micq client 0.4.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long Description field.

Patch / fix

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-2001-0233 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Powertools 6.2 Red Hat Powertools 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2001:005

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20569)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20569 mICQ 0.4.6 - Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2001-01-17

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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