CVE-2002-2367: SOCKS5

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one buffer overflow in NEC SOCKS5 1.0 r11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long hostname.

Affected products

• SOCKS5 SOCKS5: version 1.0_r11 only

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