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CVE-2005-0101

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0101 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the socket_getline function of Newspost versions 2.1.1 and earlier. This flaw allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems by sending a long string without a newline character. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:newspost:newspost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
15.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-785 · Feb 3, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1587 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
people.freebsd.org / ~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt
ExploitVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14092
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14098
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19178
securityfocus.com / bid/12418
vuxml.org / freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
Vendor Advisory