CVE-2003-1118: University Of California Seti At Home

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 18.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the SETI@home client 3.03 and other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and execute arbitrary code via a spoofed server response containing a long string followed by a \n (newline) character.

Affected products

• University Of California Seti At Home: version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.6 only; version 3.7 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.