CVE-2008-3252

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2008-3252 · Published 21/07/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-3252 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting newsx (fedora).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.7%, higher than 93.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
newsx fedora	`= 1.6`	No fix yet

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.

References

secunia.com/advisories/31080 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/31307
debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1622
securityfocus.com/bid/30231
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43844
redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00485.html
redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00565.html

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