CVE-2003-0028

Glibc vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

15.0%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Integer overflow in the xdrmem_getbytes() function, and possibly other functions, of XDR (external data representation) libraries derived from SunRPC, including libnsl, libc, glibc, and dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain integer values in length fields, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-0391.

Affected vendor

Gnu

Affected product

Glibc

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2003-03-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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