CVE-2002-1565: Immunix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in url_filename function for wget 1.8.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long URL.

Affected products

Published 2003-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.