CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0062
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-03-08
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer overflow in ncurses 5.0, and the ncurses4 compatibility package as used in Red Hat Linux, allows local users to gain privileges, related to "routines for moving the physical cursor and scrolling."
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 2.2
• freebsd freebsd 3.1
• freebsd freebsd 3.2
• freebsd freebsd 3.3
• freebsd freebsd 3.4
• freebsd freebsd 3.5
• freebsd freebsd 3.5.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.0
• freebsd freebsd 4.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
• freebsd freebsd 5.0
• redhat linux 6.1
• redhat linux 7.0
• redhat linux 7.1
• redhat linux 7.2
• suse suse linux 6.2
• suse suse linux 6.3
• suse suse linux 7.0
• invisible-island ncurses (< 5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-113 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8222.php Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-020.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2116 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-113 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8222.php Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-020.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2116 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory