CVE-2002-1816: Redshift Atphttpd

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one buffer overflow in the sock_gets function in sockhelp.c for ATPhttpd 0.4b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP GET request.

Affected products

  • Redshift Atphttpd: up to and including 0.4b

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