CVE-2016-20043: Nrss

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NRSS RSS Reader 0.3.9-1 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -F parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious input with 256 bytes of padding followed by a controlled EIP value to overwrite the return address and achieve code execution.

Affected products

• Nrss Nrss: up to and including 0.3.9-1

Published 2026-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.