Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3252

RCE

Title: Fedora Newsx RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-3252.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jul 21, 2008
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
24.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3252: Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.

Impacted Vendors

N
newsx 1
F
fedora 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/31080 http://secunia.com/advisories/31307 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1622 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30231 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43844 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00485.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00565.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31080 http://secunia.com/advisories/31307 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1622 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30231 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454483 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43844 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00485.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00565.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3252 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.