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CVE-1999-1457 (GCVE-0-1999-1457)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:18
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in thttpd HTTP server before 2.04-31 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long date string, which is not properly handled by the tdate_parse function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/s… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
1999-11-16 00:00
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