Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0979

Title: RUMBA multiple buffer overflows RCE/DoS

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-0979

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0979: Multiple buffer overflows in RUMBA 7.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted values in a profile file, as demonstrated using a long SysName field.

Impacted Vendors

netmanage 1

microfocus 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238364916500&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12965 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19934 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238364916500&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12965 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19934

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0979 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25326

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.