CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0709

Published: Oct 20, 2003 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0709
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Buffer overflow in the whois client, which is not setuid but is sometimes called from within CGI programs, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command line option.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Whois	Whois	4.5.7 (including)	4.5.7 (including)
Whois	Whois	4.6.6 (including)	4.6.6 (including)

References

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