CVE-2004-0238: 0verkill

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Overkill (0verkill) 0.15pre3 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code in the client via a long HOME environment variable in the (1) load_cfg and (2) save_cfg functions; possibly allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long strings to (3) the send_message function; and, in the server, via (4) the parse_command_line function.

Affected products

• 0verkill 0verkill: version 0.16 only

Published 2004-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.