CVE-2002-0003 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the preprocessor of GNU groff versions 1.16 and earlier, which can be exploited through the LPRng printing system's lpd. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without authentication, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been identified, organizations using affected groff versions should still consider patching.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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