CVE-2008-3252: Fedora Newsx

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_article function in getarticle.c in newsx 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.

Affected products

• Fedora Newsx: version 1.6 only

Published 2008-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.