CVE-2004-0458 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

mah-jong before 1.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a missing argument, which triggers a null pointer dereference.

Published: 2004-08-19

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:nicolas_boullis:mah-jong:1.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:nicolas_boullis:mah-jong:1.6:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01605.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-503
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10343
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16143

History

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Debian Debian Linux

Nicolas Boullis Mah-jong

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-08-19T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-16T17:35:50.721Z

Reserved: 2004-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0458

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:14.961Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-09-28T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0458

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-476

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