VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-1506

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability1.61%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-04-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in Linuxconf before 1.28r4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long LINUXCONF_LANG environment variable, which overflows an error string that is generated.

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