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CVE-2002-1050
Buffer overflow in HylaFAX faxgetty before 4.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in HylaFAX faxgetty before 4.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a long line of image data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- hylafax-faxgetty-image-bo(9729) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020729 HylaFAX - Various Vulnerabilities Fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 5349 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2002:035 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=312 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-148 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:055 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2002-1039 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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