About “Buffer Overflow”

A curated feed of “Buffer Overflow”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 19109 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 2728 were published. Average CVSS is 7.9 (all time; 8.0 over 365d), and 78% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow, CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a HIGH impact class. Common exploitation patterns for this weakness can lead to high. Use the filters to triage high risk first and validate exposure in your environment. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2001-01-09
High

CVE-2000-1189

Buffer overflow in pam_localuser PAM module in Red Hat Linux 7.x and 6.x allows attackers to gain privileges.

2000-12-20
High

CVE-1999-0307

Buffer overflow in HP-UX cstm program allows local users to gain root privileges.

2000-12-19
High

CVE-2000-0817

Buffer overflow in the HTTP protocol parser for Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via malformed data, aka the "Netmon Protocol Parsing" vulnerab…

High

CVE-2000-0885

Buffer overflows in Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Browser Name in a CIFS Browse Frame, a long SNMP community name, or a long usern…

High

CVE-2000-0909

Buffer overflow in the automatic mail checking component of Pine 4.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long From: header.

High

CVE-2000-0931

Buffer overflow in Pegasus Mail 3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long email message containing binary data.

High

CVE-2000-0943

Buffer overflow in bftp daemon (bftpd) 1.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long USER command.

Critical

CVE-2000-0961

Buffer overflow in IMAP server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long LIST command.

High

CVE-2000-0963

Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.

Critical

CVE-2000-0964

Buffer overflow in the web administration service for the HiNet LP5100 IP-phone allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long GET request.

Medium

CVE-2000-0966

Buffer overflows in lpspooler in the fileset PrinterMgmt.LP-SPOOL of HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges.

Critical

CVE-2000-0968

Buffer overflow in Half Life dedicated server before build 3104 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long rcon command.

Critical

CVE-2000-0973

Buffer overflow in curl earlier than 6.0-1.1, and curl-ssl earlier than 6.0-1.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by forcing a long error message to be generated.

Medium

CVE-2000-0976

Buffer overflow in xlib in XFree 3.3.x possibly allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long DISPLAY environment variable or a -display command line parameter.

Critical

CVE-2000-0985

Buffer overflow in All-Mail 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long "MAIL FROM" or "RCPT TO" command.

Medium

CVE-2000-0986

Buffer overflow in Oracle 8.1.5 applications such as names, namesctl, onrsd, osslogin, tnslsnr, tnsping, trcasst, and trcroute possibly allow local users to gain privileges via a long ORACLE_HOME env…

Medium

CVE-2000-0987

Buffer overflow in oidldapd in Oracle 8.1.6 allow local users to gain privileges via a long "connect" command line parameter.

Medium

CVE-2000-0989

Buffer overflow in Intel InBusiness eMail Station 1.04.87 POP service allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute commands via a long username.

High

CVE-2000-0991

Buffer overflow in Hilgraeve, Inc. HyperTerminal client on Windows 98, ME, and 2000 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long telnet URL, aka the "HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow…

2000-12-11
High

CVE-2000-1011

Buffer overflow in catopen() function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long environmental variable.

Critical

CVE-2000-1026

Multiple buffer overflows in LBNL tcpdump allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

High

CVE-2000-1028

Buffer overflow in cu program in HP-UX 11.0 may allow local users to gain privileges via a long -l command line argument.

Critical

CVE-2000-1029

Buffer overflow in host command allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long response to an AXFR query.

Medium

CVE-2000-1031

Buffer overflow in dtterm in HP-UX 11.0 and HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0f through 5.1a allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -tn option.

Critical

CVE-2000-1034

Buffer overflow in the System Monitor ActiveX control in Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long LogFileName parameter in HTML source code, aka the "ActiveX Para…

Critical

CVE-2000-1035

Buffer overflows in TYPSoft FTP Server 0.78 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long USER, PASS, or CWD command.

Critical

CVE-2000-1041

Buffer overflow in ypbind 3.3 possibly allows an attacker to gain root privileges.

Critical

CVE-2000-1042

Buffer overflow in ypserv in Mandrake Linux 7.1 and earlier, and possibly other Linux operating systems, allows an attacker to gain root privileges when ypserv is built without a vsyslog() function.

Critical

CVE-2000-1046

Multiple buffer overflows in the ESMTP service of Lotus Domino 5.0.2c and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long (1) "RCPT TO," (2) "…

Critical

CVE-2000-1047

Buffer overflow in SMTP service of Lotus Domino 5.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long ENVID keyword in the "MAIL FR…

Critical

CVE-2000-1054

Buffer overflow in CSAdmin module in CiscoSecure ACS Server 2.4(2) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a large packet.

Critical

CVE-2000-1055

Buffer overflow in CiscoSecure ACS Server 2.4(2) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a large TACACS+ packet.

Medium

CVE-2000-1058

Buffer overflow in OverView5 CGI program in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) 6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, in th…

Medium

CVE-2000-1062

Buffer overflow in the FTP service in HP JetDirect printer card Firmware x.08.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-2000-1063

Buffer overflow in the Telnet service in HP JetDirect printer card Firmware x.08.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Medium

CVE-2000-1064

Buffer overflow in the LPD service in HP JetDirect printer card Firmware x.08.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Critical

CVE-2000-1077

Buffer overflow in the SHTML logging functionality of iPlanet Web Server 4.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long filename with a .shtml extension.

2000-11-14
Medium

CVE-2000-0809

Buffer overflow in Getkey in the protocol checker in the inter-module communication mechanism in Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Critical

CVE-2000-0826

Buffer overflow in ddicgi.exe program in Mobius DocumentDirect for the Internet 1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long GET request.

Critical

CVE-2000-0827

Buffer overflow in the web authorization form of Mobius DocumentDirect for the Internet 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long username.

Critical

CVE-2000-0828

Buffer overflow in ddicgi.exe in Mobius DocumentDirect for the Internet 1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long User-Agent parameter.

High

CVE-2000-0831

Buffer overflow in Fastream FTP++ 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long username.

Critical

CVE-2000-0833

Buffer overflow in WinSMTP 1.06f and 2.X allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long (1) USER or (2) HELO command.

High

CVE-2000-0836

Buffer overflow in CamShot WebCam Trial2.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Authorization header.

Critical

CVE-2000-0840

Buffer overflow in XMail POP3 server before version 0.59 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long USER command.

Critical

CVE-2000-0841

Buffer overflow in XMail POP3 server before version 0.59 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long APOP command.

Critical

CVE-2000-0843

Buffer overflow in pam_smb and pam_ntdom pluggable authentication modules (PAM) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a login with a long user name.

High

CVE-2000-0846

Buffer overflow in Darxite 0.4 and earlier allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long username or password.

High

CVE-2000-0847

Buffer overflow in University of Washington c-client library (used by pine and other programs) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long X-Keywords header.

Critical

CVE-2000-0848

Buffer overflow in IBM WebSphere web application server (WAS) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Host: request header.

Medium

CVE-2000-0851

Buffer overflow in the Still Image Service in Windows 2000 allows local users to gain additional privileges via a long WM_USER message, aka the "Still Image Service Privilege Escalation" vulnerabilit…

High

CVE-2000-0852

Multiple buffer overflows in eject on FreeBSD and possibly other OSes allows local users to gain root privileges.

High

CVE-2000-0856

Buffer overflow in SunFTP build 9(1) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long GET request.

High

CVE-2000-0863

Buffer overflow in listmanager earlier than 2.105.1 allows local users to gain additional privileges.

High

CVE-2000-0865

Buffer overflow in dvtermtype in Tridia Double Vision 3.07.00 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long terminal type argument.

High

CVE-2000-0870

Buffer overflow in EFTP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string.

Medium

CVE-2000-0871

Buffer overflow in EFTP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a string that does not contain a newline, then disconnecting from the server.

2000-10-20
Critical

CVE-2000-0359

Buffer overflow in Trivial HTTP (THTTPd) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long If-Modified-Since header.

Medium

CVE-2000-0360

Buffer overflow in INN 2.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a maliciously formatted article.

Critical

CVE-2000-0677

Buffer overflow in IBM Net.Data db2www CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long PATH_INFO environmental variable.

Critical

CVE-2000-0681

Buffer overflow in BEA WebLogic server proxy plugin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long URL with a .JSP extension.

High

CVE-2000-0695

Buffer overflows in pgxconfig in the Raptor GFX configuration tool allow local users to gain privileges via command line options.

Critical

CVE-2000-0704

Buffer overflow in SGI Omron WorldView Wnn allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long JS_OPEN, JS_MKDIR, or JS_FILE_INFO commands.

Critical

CVE-2000-0706

Buffer overflows in ntop running in web mode allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Medium

CVE-2000-0708

Buffer overflow in Pragma Systems TelnetServer 2000 version 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long series of null characters to the rexec port.

High

CVE-2000-0713

Buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat 4.05, Reader, Business Tools, and Fill In products that handle PDF files allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long /Registry or /Ordering specifier.

Medium

CVE-2000-0735

Buffer overflow in Becky! Internet Mail client 1.26.03 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long Content-type: MIME header when the user replies to a message.

Medium

CVE-2000-0736

Buffer overflow in Becky! Internet Mail client 1.26.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long Content-type: MIME header when the user forwards a message.

Medium

CVE-2000-0740

Buffer overflow in strong.exe program in NAI Net Tools PKI server 1.0 before HotFix 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long URL in the HTTPS port.

Critical

CVE-2000-0743

Buffer overflow in University of Minnesota (UMN) gopherd 2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a DES key generation request (GDESkey) that contains a long ticket value.

High

CVE-2000-0749

Buffer overflow in the Linux binary compatibility module in FreeBSD 3.x through 5.x allows local users to gain root privileges via long filenames in the linux shadow file system.

High

CVE-2000-0750

Buffer overflow in mopd (Maintenance Operations Protocol loader daemon) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long file name.

High

CVE-2000-0752

Buffer overflows in brouted in FreeBSD and possibly other OSes allows local users to gain root privileges via long command line arguments.

Medium

CVE-2000-0765

Buffer overflow in the HTML interpreter in Microsoft Office 2000 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long embedded object tag, aka the "Microsoft Office HTML Object Tag" vulnerabil…

High

CVE-2000-0766

Buffer overflow in vqSoft vqServer 1.4.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via a long HTTP GET request.

High

CVE-2000-0775

Buffer overflow in RobTex Viking server earlier than 1.06-370 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request, or long Unless-Modified-S…

High

CVE-2000-0794

Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.

High

CVE-2000-0795

Buffer overflow in lpstat in IRIX 6.2 and 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long -n option.

High

CVE-2000-0796

Buffer overflow in dmplay in IRIX 6.2 and 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line option.

High

CVE-2000-0797

Buffer overflow in gr_osview in IRIX 6.2 and 6.3 allows local users to gain privileges via a long -D option.

High

CVE-2000-0801

Buffer overflow in bdf program in HP-UX 11.00 may allow local users to gain root privileges via a long -t option.

2000-10-18
Medium

CVE-2000-1214

Buffer overflows in the (1) outpack or (2) buf variables of ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, may allow local users to gain…

2000-09-16
High

CVE-1999-0761

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD fts library routines allows local user to modify arbitrary files via the periodic program.

2000-08-08
Medium

CVE-2000-0545

Buffer overflow in mailx mail command (aka Mail) on Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges via a long -c (carbon copy) parameter.

2000-07-25
Medium

CVE-2000-0656

Buffer overflow in AnalogX proxy server 4.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command in the FTP protocol.

Medium

CVE-2000-0657

Buffer overflow in AnalogX proxy server 4.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long HELO command in the SMTP protocol.

Medium

CVE-2000-0658

Buffer overflow in AnalogX proxy server 4.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long USER command in the POP3 protocol.

Medium

CVE-2000-0659

Buffer overflow in AnalogX proxy server 4.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long user ID in a SOCKS4 CONNECT request.

2000-07-20
High

CVE-2000-0624

Buffer overflow in Winamp 2.64 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long #EXTINF: extension in the M3U playlist.

2000-07-19
Critical

CVE-2000-0622

Buffer overflow in Webfind CGI program in O'Reilly WebSite Professional web server 2.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a URL containing a long "keywords" parameter.

2000-07-18
Medium

CVE-2000-0567

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Date field in an email header, aka the "Malformed E-mail Header" vulnerabilit…

Medium

CVE-2000-0626

Buffer overflow in Alibaba web server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long GET request.

2000-07-17
Critical

CVE-2000-0623

Buffer overflow in O'Reilly WebSite Professional web server 2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long GET request or Referrer header.

High

CVE-2000-0632

Buffer overflow in the web archive component of L-Soft Listserv 1.8d and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long query string.

2000-07-13
High

CVE-2000-0675

Buffer overflow in Infopulse Gatekeeper 3.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long string.

2000-07-12
Medium

CVE-2000-0643

Buffer overflow in WebActive HTTP Server 1.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.

2000-07-02
Critical

CVE-2000-0584

Buffer overflow in Canna input system allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an SR_INIT command with a long user name or group name.

2000-06-29
Critical

CVE-2000-0586

Buffer overflow in Dalnet IRC server 4.6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via the SUMMON command.

High

CVE-2000-0599

Buffer overflow in iMesh 1.02 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long string to the iMesh port.

2000-06-27
High

CVE-2000-0592

Buffer overflows in POP3 service in WinProxy 2.0 and 2.0.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long USER, PASS, LIST, RETR, or DELE commands.

2000-06-22
Medium

CVE-2000-0617

Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long USER environmental variable.

Medium

CVE-2000-0618

Buffer overflow in xconq and cconq game programs on Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain additional privileges via long DISPLAY environmental variable.

2000-06-21
High

CVE-2000-0606

Buffer overflow in kon program in Kanji on Console (KON) package on Linux may allow local users to gain root privileges via a long -StartupMessage parameter.

High

CVE-2000-0607

Buffer overflow in fld program in Kanji on Console (KON) package on Linux may allow local users to gain root privileges via an input file containing long CHARSET_REGISTRY or CHARSET_ENCODING settings.

2000-06-19
High

CVE-2000-0561

Buffer overflow in WebBBS 1.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request.

2000-06-15
High

CVE-2000-0473

Buffer overflow in AnalogX SimpleServer 1.05 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long GET request for a program in the cgi-bin directory.

2000-06-14
High

CVE-2000-0471

Buffer overflow in ufsrestore in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long pathname.

Medium

CVE-2000-0477

Buffer overflow in Norton Antivirus for Exchange (NavExchange) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a .zip file that contains long file names.

2000-06-09
Medium

CVE-2000-0546

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the lastrealm variable in the set_tgtkey function.

Medium

CVE-2000-0547

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the localrealm variable in the process_v4 function.

Medium

CVE-2000-0548

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the e_msg variable in the kerb_err_reply function.

2000-06-07
Critical

CVE-2000-0376

Buffer overflow in the HTTP proxy server for the i-drive Filo software allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request.

High

CVE-2000-0520

Buffer overflow in restore program 0.4b17 and earlier in dump package allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long tape name.

2000-06-06
Critical

CVE-2000-0523

Buffer overflow in the logging feature of EServ 2.9.2 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long MKD command.

Critical

CVE-2000-0558

Buffer overflow in HP Openview Network Node Manager 6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the Alarm service (OVALARMSRV) on port 2345.

2000-06-05
Medium

CVE-2000-0556

Buffer overflow in the web interface for Cmail 2.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large user name to the user dialog running on port 8002.

Critical

CVE-2000-0557

Buffer overflow in the web interface for Cmail 2.4.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long GET request.

2000-06-01
High

CVE-2000-0467

Buffer overflow in Linux splitvt 1.6.3 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long password in the screen locking function.

Critical

CVE-2000-0490

Buffer overflow in the NetWin DSMTP 2.7q in the NetWin dmail package allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long ETRN request.

Critical

CVE-2000-0493

Buffer overflow in Simple Network Time Sync (SMTS) daemon allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long string.