CVE-2005-0687 Information

Description

Format string vulnerability in Hashcash 1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a reply address which is not properly handled when printing the header.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83541 http://secunia.com/advisories/14487 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-12.xml