CVE-2002-1816

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2002-1816 · Published 31/12/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-1816 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting atphttpd (redshift).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.0%, higher than 95.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
atphttpd redshift	`≤ 0.4b`	No fix yet

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in the sock_gets function in sockhelp.c for ATPhttpd 0.4b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP GET request.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0187.html · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/7293 · Broken Link
iss.net/security_center/static/10362.php · Broken Link
securityfocus.com/bid/5956 · Broken Link

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