CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0224

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-01-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-01-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in Library of Assorted Spiffy Things (LibAST) 0.6.1 and earlier, as used in Eterm and possibly other software, allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the utmp user via a long -X command line argument (alternative configuration file name).

Affected configurations

• libast libast 0.4 • libast libast 0.5 • libast libast 0.6 • libast libast 0.6.1

References