CVE-2001-0927

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the permitted function of GNOME libgtop_daemon in libgtop 1.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument that contains format specifiers that are passed into the (1) syslog_message and (2) syslog_io_message functions.

Affected products

GNOME Libgtop Daemon: 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.9, 1.0.12

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100689302316077&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-098
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100689302316077&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-098

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