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
1999-11-30
High

CVE-1999-0840

Buffer overflow in CDE dtmail and dtmailpr programs allows local users to gain privileges via a long -f option.

High

CVE-1999-0841

Buffer overflow in CDE mailtool allows local users to gain root privileges via a long MIME Content-Type.

1999-11-29
Medium

CVE-1999-0847

Buffer overflow in free internet chess server (FICS) program, xboard.

1999-11-25
High

CVE-1999-0317

Buffer overflow in Linux su command gives root access to local users.

High

CVE-1999-0845

Buffer overflow in SCO su program allows local users to gain root access via a long username.

1999-11-24
High

CVE-1999-1189

Buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 for Windows 95 and Windows 98 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument…

1999-11-22
High

CVE-1999-1058

Buffer overflow in Vermillion FTP Daemon VFTPD 1.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via several long CWD commands.

1999-11-20
High

CVE-1999-0818

Buffer overflow in Solaris kcms_configure via a long NETPATH environmental variable.

1999-11-17
Medium

CVE-2000-0073

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.

1999-11-16
High

CVE-1999-1457

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.

1999-11-15
Critical

CVE-1999-1190

Buffer overflow in POP3 server of Admiral Systems EmailClub 1.05 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long "From" header in an e-mail message.

1999-11-13
High

CVE-2000-0165

The Delegate application proxy has several buffer overflows which allow a remote attacker to execute commands.

1999-11-10
High

CVE-1999-0833

Buffer overflow in BIND 8.2 via NXT records.

High

CVE-1999-1511

Buffer overflows in Xtramail 1.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via (1) a long PASS command in the POP3 service, (2) a long HELO command…

High

CVE-1999-1539

Buffer overflow in FTP server in QPC Software's QVT/Term Plus versions 4.2d and 4.3 and QVT/Net 4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via…

1999-11-09
Critical

CVE-1999-0832

Buffer overflow in NFS server on Linux allows attackers to execute commands via a long pathname.

High

CVE-1999-1111

Vulnerability in StackGuard before 1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the Random and Terminator Canary security mechanisms by using a non-linear attack which directly modifies a pointer to a retu…

High

CVE-1999-1112

Buffer overflow in IrfanView32 3.07 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long string after the "8BPS" image type in a Photo Shop image header.

1999-11-08
Medium

CVE-1999-0863

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD seyon via HOME environmental variable, -emulator argument, -modems argument, or the GUI.

Critical

CVE-2001-0679

A buffer overflow in InterScan VirusWall 3.23 and 3.3 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a long HELO command to the server.

1999-11-07
High

CVE-1999-1529

A buffer overflow exists in the HELO command in Trend Micro Interscan VirusWall SMTP gateway 3.23/3.3 for NT, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

1999-11-04
Critical

CVE-1999-0896

Buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealServer administration utility allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long username and password.

High

CVE-1999-0898

Buffer overflows in Windows NT 4.0 print spooler allow remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a malformed spooler request.

High

CVE-1999-1340

Buffer overflow in faxalter in hylafax 4.0.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a long -m command line argument.

High

CVE-1999-1571

Buffer overflow in sar for SCO OpenServer 5.0.0 through 5.0.5 may allow local users to gain root privileges via a long -f parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-1999-1570.

1999-11-03
Medium

CVE-1999-0904

Buffer overflow in BFTelnet allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long username.

1999-11-02
Medium

CVE-1999-0946

Buffer overflow in Yamaha MidiPlug via a Text variable in an EMBED tag.

High

CVE-1999-0948

Buffer overflow in uum program for Canna input system allows local users to gain root privileges.

High

CVE-1999-0949

Buffer overflow in canuum program for Canna input system allows local users to gain root privileges.

High

CVE-1999-1531

Buffer overflow in IBM HomePagePrint 1.0.7 for Windows98J allows a malicious Web site to execute arbitrary code on a viewer's system via a long IMG_SRC HTML tag.

1999-11-01
High

CVE-1999-0830

Buffer overflow in SCO UnixWare Xsco command via a long argument.

1999-10-31
Medium

CVE-1999-1577

Buffer overflow in HHOpen ActiveX control (hhopen.ocx) 1.0.0.1 for Internet Explorer 4.01 and 5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long arguments to the OpenHelp method.

1999-10-30
High

CVE-1999-0873

Buffer overflow in Skyfull mail server via MAIL FROM command.

1999-10-28
Critical

CVE-1999-0950

Buffer overflow in WFTPD FTP server allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

1999-10-23
High

CVE-1999-0900

Buffer overflow in rpc.yppasswdd allows a local user to gain privileges via MD5 hash generation.

1999-10-22
Critical

CVE-1999-0951

Buffer overflow in OmniHTTPd CGI program imagemap.exe allows remote attackers to execute commands.

High

CVE-2000-0362

Buffer overflows in Linux cdwtools 093 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges.

1999-10-15
Critical

CVE-1999-0943

Buffer overflow in OpenLink 3.2 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a long GET request to the web configurator.

1999-10-04
High

CVE-1999-1523

Buffer overflow in Sambar Web Server 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long HTTP GET request.

1999-10-01
Critical

CVE-1999-0879

Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via macro variables in a message file.

Medium

CVE-2000-0016

Buffer overflow in Internet Anywhere POP3 Mail Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute commands via a long username.

Medium

CVE-2000-0047

Buffer overflow in Yahoo Pager/Messenger client allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL within a message.

1999-09-30
Medium

CVE-1999-0931

Buffer overflow in Mediahouse Statistics Server allows remote attackers to execute commands.

High

CVE-1999-1469

Buffer overflow in w3-auth CGI program in miniSQL package allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an HTTP request with (1) a long URL, or (2) a long User-Agent MIME header.

High

CVE-1999-1583

Buffer overflow in nslookup for AIX 4.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long hostname command line argument.

1999-09-28
Critical

CVE-1999-0789

Buffer overflow in AIX ftpd in the libc library.

1999-09-27
High

CVE-1999-0940

Buffer overflow in mutt mail client allows remote attackers to execute commands via malformed MIME messages.

High

CVE-1999-1576

Buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat ActiveX control (pdf.ocx, PDF.PdfCtrl.1) 1.3.188 for Acrobat Reader 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the pdf.setview method.

1999-09-24
High

CVE-1999-1484

Buffer overflow in MSN Setup BBS 4.71.0.10 ActiveX control (setupbbs.ocx) allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via the methods (1) vAddNewsServer or (2) bIsNewsServerConfigured.

Medium

CVE-1999-1578

Buffer overflow in Registration Wizard ActiveX control (regwizc.dll, InvokeRegWizard) 3.0.0.0 for Internet Explorer 4.01 and 5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

1999-09-23
High

CVE-1999-0906

Buffer overflow in sccw allows local users to gain root access via the HOME environmental variable.

High

CVE-1999-1477

Buffer overflow in GNOME libraries 1.0.8 allows local user to gain root access via a long --espeaker argument in programs such as nethack.

High

CVE-1999-1534

Buffer overflow in (1) nlservd and (2) rnavc in Knox Software Arkeia backup product allows local users to obtain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

1999-09-21
High

CVE-1999-0708

Buffer overflow in cfingerd allows local users to gain root privileges via a long GECOS field.

1999-09-16
Critical

CVE-1999-0704

Buffer overflow in Berkeley automounter daemon (amd) logging facility provided in the Linux am-utils package and others.

1999-09-13
High

CVE-1999-0691

Buffer overflow in the AddSuLog function of the CDE dtaction utility allows local users to gain root privileges via a long user name.

Medium

CVE-1999-0751

Buffer overflow in Accept command in Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 with the SSL Handshake Patch.

Critical

CVE-1999-0759

Buffer overflow in FuseMAIL POP service via long USER and PASS commands.

Medium

CVE-1999-1014

Buffer overflow in mail command in Solaris 2.7 and 2.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long -m argument.

1999-09-12
Critical

CVE-1999-1521

Computalynx CMail 2.4 and CMail 2.3 SP2 SMTP servers are vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack in the MAIL FROM command that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server.

1999-09-08
High

CVE-1999-0767

Buffer overflow in Solaris libc, ufsrestore, and rcp via LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.

1999-09-02
Medium

CVE-1999-0685

Buffer overflow in Netscape Communicator via EMBED tags in the pluginspage option.

High

CVE-1999-1516

A buffer overflow in TenFour TFS Gateway SMTP mail server 3.2 allows an attacker to crash the mail server and possibly execute arbitrary code by offering more than 128 bytes in a MAIL FROM string.

1999-09-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0670

Buffer overflow in the Eyedog ActiveX control allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

High

CVE-1999-0705

Buffer overflow in INN inews program.

1999-08-31
High

CVE-1999-0774

Buffer overflows in Mars NetWare Emulation (NWE, mars_nwe) package via long directory names.

1999-08-27
Critical

CVE-1999-0911

Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

1999-08-25
High

CVE-1999-0768

Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron on Red Hat systems via the MAILTO environmental variable.

High

CVE-1999-0872

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.

1999-08-22
Critical

CVE-1999-0878

Buffer overflow in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via MAPPING_CHDIR.

Critical

CVE-1999-1064

Multiple buffer overflows in WindowMaker 0.52 through 0.60.0 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by executing WindowMaker with a long program name (ar…

1999-08-18
Critical

CVE-1999-0745

Buffer overflow in Source Code Browser Program Database Name Server Daemon (pdnsd) for the IBM AIX C Set ++ compiler.

1999-08-16
Low

CVE-1999-0749

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Telnet client in Windows 95 and Windows 98 via a malformed Telnet argument.

1999-08-13
High

CVE-1999-0679

Buffer overflow in hybrid-6 IRC server commonly used on EFnet allows remote attackers to execute commands via m_invite invite option.

1999-08-12
Medium

CVE-1999-0724

Buffer overflow in OpenBSD procfs and fdescfs file systems via uio_offset in the readdir() function.

1999-08-08
Medium

CVE-1999-0673

Buffer overflow in ALMail32 POP3 client via From: or To: headers.

1999-08-03
Medium

CVE-1999-0671

Buffer overflow in ToxSoft NextFTP client through CWD command.

1999-08-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0672

Buffer overflow in Fujitsu Chocoa IRC client via IRC channel topics.

1999-07-29
Medium

CVE-1999-0700

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Phone Dialer (dialer.exe), via a malformed dialer entry in the dialer.ini file.

1999-07-21
Medium

CVE-1999-0811

Buffer overflow in Samba smbd program via a malformed message command.

1999-07-20
Critical

CVE-1999-1535

Buffer overflow in AspUpload.dll in Persits Software AspUpload before 1.4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument in the…

1999-07-06
Medium

CVE-1999-0752

Denial of service in Netscape Enterprise Server via a buffer overflow in the SSL handshake.

1999-07-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0688

Buffer overflows in HP Software Distributor (SD) for HPUX 10.x and 11.x.

Critical

CVE-1999-0696

Buffer overflow in CDE Calendar Manager Service Daemon (rpc.cmsd).

1999-06-26
High

CVE-1999-0733

Buffer overflow in VMWare 1.0.1 for Linux via a long HOME environmental variable.

1999-06-25
High

CVE-1999-0778

Buffer overflow in Xi Graphics Accelerated-X server allows local users to gain root access via a long display or query parameter.

1999-06-24
High

CVE-1999-0748

Buffer overflows in Red Hat net-tools package.

1999-06-16
Critical

CVE-1999-0874

Buffer overflow in IIS 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request for files with .HTR, .IDC, or .STM extensions.

1999-06-06
Critical

CVE-1999-1237

Multiple buffer overflows in smbvalid/smbval SMB authentication library, as used in Apache::AuthenSmb and possibly other modules, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) a long…

1999-06-01
Medium

CVE-2000-0481

Buffer overflow in KDE Kmail allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an attachment with a long file name.

1999-05-27
High

CVE-1999-0802

Buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 5 allows remote attackers to execute commands via a malformed Favorites icon.

1999-05-26
Critical

CVE-1999-0920

Buffer overflow in the pop-2d POP daemon in the IMAP package allows remote attackers to gain privileges via the FOLD command.

1999-05-23
Medium

CVE-1999-0928

Buffer overflow in SmartDesk WebSuite allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long URL.

1999-05-20
Medium

CVE-1999-0715

Buffer overflow in Remote Access Service (RAS) client allows an attacker to execute commands or cause a denial of service via a malformed phonebook entry.

1999-05-17
Medium

CVE-1999-0716

Buffer overflow in Windows NT 4.0 help file utility via a malformed help file.

High

CVE-1999-1510

Buffer overflows in Bisonware FTP server prior to 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via long (1) USER, (2) LIST, or (3) CWD commands.

1999-05-11
High

CVE-1999-0773

Buffer overflow in Solaris lpset program allows local users to gain root access.

1999-05-10
High

CVE-1999-0806

Buffer overflow in Solaris dtprintinfo program.

1999-05-08
Medium

CVE-1999-1566

Buffer overflow in iParty server 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by connecting to default port 6004 and sending repeated extended characters.

1999-05-01
Critical

CVE-1999-1553

Buffer overflow in XCmail 0.99.6 with autoquote enabled allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long subject line.

1999-04-05
High

CVE-1999-0439

Buffer overflow in procmail before version 3.12 allows remote or local attackers to execute commands via expansions in the procmailrc configuration file.

1999-03-08
High

CVE-1999-1371

Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/write in Solaris 2.6 and 7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long string in the terminal name argument.

1999-03-05
High

CVE-1999-0410

The cancel command in Solaris 2.6 (i386) has a buffer overflow that allows local users to obtain root access.

1999-03-04
Medium

CVE-1999-0409

Buffer overflow in gnuplot in Linux version 3.5 allows local users to obtain root access.

1999-03-02
Medium

CVE-1999-1551

Buffer overflow in Ipswitch IMail Service 5.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long URL.

1999-03-01
Medium

CVE-1999-0261

Netmanager Chameleon SMTPd has several buffer overflows that cause a crash.

High

CVE-1999-0413

A buffer overflow in the SGI X server allows local users to gain root access through the X server font path.

Critical

CVE-1999-1046

Buffer overflow in IMonitor in IMail 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long string to port 8181.

1999-02-26
High

CVE-1999-0381

super 3.11.6 and other versions have a buffer overflow in the syslog utility which allows a local user to gain root access.

1999-02-23
Low

CVE-1999-0484

Buffer overflow in OpenBSD ping.

1999-02-22
Medium

CVE-1999-0441

Remote attackers can perform a denial of service in WinGate machines using a buffer overflow in the Winsock Redirector Service.

1999-02-19
High

CVE-1999-0406

Digital Unix Networker program nsralist has a buffer overflow which allows local users to obtain root privilege.

Low

CVE-1999-0460

Buffer overflow in Linux autofs module through long directory names allows local users to perform a denial of service.

1999-02-18
High

CVE-1999-0405

A buffer overflow in lsof allows local users to obtain root privilege.

1999-02-17
Medium

CVE-1999-1060

Buffer overflow in Tetrix TetriNet daemon 1.13.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by connecting to port 31457 from a host with a long DNS…

1999-02-16
High

CVE-1999-0375

Buffer overflow in webd in Network Flight Recorder (NFR) 2.0.2-Research allows remote attackers to execute commands.

1999-02-14
High

CVE-1999-0404

Buffer overflow in the Mail-Max SMTP server for Windows systems allows remote command execution.

1999-02-09
Critical

CVE-1999-0368

Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.

1999-02-02
High

CVE-1999-0363

SuSE 5.2 PLP lpc program has a buffer overflow that leads to root compromise.

1999-02-01
High

CVE-1999-0358

Digital Unix 4.0 has a buffer overflow in the inc program of the mh package.