CVE-2003-0988 (GCVE-0-2003-0988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:12
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the VCF file information reader for KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite in KDE 3.1.0 through 3.1.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a VCF file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2004-01-14 00:00
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