CVE-2003-0849: GNU Cfengine

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 10.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in net.c for cfengine 2.x before 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain packets with modified length values, which is trusted by the ReceiveTransaction function when using a buffer provided by the BusyWithConnection function.

Affected products

• GNU Cfengine: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.