CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1994
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- 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-119
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (a) acon.c, (b) menu.c, and (c) child.c in Acon 1.0.5-5 through 1.0.5-7 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long HOME environment variable or (2) a large number of terminal columns.
Affected configurations
• ahmed abdel-hamid mohamed acon 1.0.5-5
• ahmed abdel-hamid mohamed acon 1.0.5-6
• ahmed abdel-hamid mohamed acon 1.0.5-7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475733 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476603 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29909 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28862 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41915 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475733 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476603 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29909 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28862 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41915 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com