Name: CVE-2005-0101: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2005-02-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2005-0101, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.45619

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade newspost	Dec 10, 2025	Feb 1, 2005
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-nntp/newspost.	Oct 30, 2017	Feb 1, 2005

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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