CVE-2002-1792: Fake Identd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Fake Identd 0.9 through 1.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via a long request that is split into multiple packets.

Affected products

• Fake Identd Fake Identd: version 0.9 only; version 0.9b only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.