Security Advisory

CVE-2003-0899

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2003-10-30 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 02:05:12
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in defang in libhttpd.c for thttpd 2.21 to 2.23b1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests that contain '<' or '>' characters, which trigger the overflow when the characters are expanded to "&lt;" and "&gt;" sequences.