CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2008-3252
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
10
EPSS
6.65%
Original NVD 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.