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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-0101 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code…

published 2005-02-01 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0102

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.2%
EPSS 16.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-25077)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25077 Newspost 2.0/2.1 - Remote Buffer Overflow dos, 2005-02-01
  • EDB-785 Newspost 2.1 - 'socket_getline()' Remote Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 2005-02-03
  • people.freebsd.org http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

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