CVE-2002-2400: Hughes Technologies Libhttpd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the httpdProcessRequest function in LibHTTPD 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP POST request.

Affected products

• Hughes Technologies Libhttpd: version 1.2 only

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