CVE-2003-0840

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in dtprintinfo on HP-UX 11.00, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long DISPLAY environment variable.

Buffer overflow in dtprintinfo on HP-UX 11.00, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long DISPLAY 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 21 years ago

2003-11-17 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:37:00

Affected Software

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

References

20031008 HPUX dtprintinfo buffer overflow vulnerability

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