CVE-2012-2944
EPSS 6.1%nut - denial of service
Published: 6/1/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2944
Description
Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/nutfrom 0, < 2.6.4-1
- Debian/nutfrom 0, < 2.4.3-1.1squeeze2