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CVE-2008-7224

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7224 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the entity_cache component of ELinks versions prior to 0.11.4rc0, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by crashing the application with a specially crafted link. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.11.1-1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.11.1-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 74th 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: elinks-0:0.9.2-4.el4_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: elinks-0:0.11.1-6.el5_4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-7224Important

elinks: entity_cache static array buffer overflow (off-by-one)

Jul 29, 2006

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
linuxfromscratch.org / pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html
osvdb.org / 41949
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10126