CVE-2003-0061

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in passwd for HP UX B.10.20 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via a long LANG environment variable.

Buffer overflow in passwd for HP UX B.10.20 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via a long LANG environment variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2002-01-11 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:33:00

Affected Software

HP HP-UX 10.20

10.20

References

20030203 HP UX passwd Binary Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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