CVE-2002-0552

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 8.6%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 11

1st PoCApr 14

exploitation probability

8.6%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Multiple buffer overflows in Melange Chat server 2.02 allow remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument in the /yell command, (2) long lines in the /etc/melange.conf configuration file, (3) long file names, or possibly other attacks.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/21379

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0157.html http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/267932 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8842.php http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8845.php http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8846.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4508 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4509 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4510