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CVE-2002-0176

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The printf wrappers in libsafe 2.0-11 and earlier do not properly handle argument indexing specifiers, which could allow attackers to exploit certain function calls through arguments that are not verified by libsafe.

Affected products

• Avaya Libsafe: 1.3.4, 1.3.8, 2.0.2, 2.0.5, 2.0.9, 2.0.10 (+1)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0070.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263121
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8594.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-026.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4327
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0070.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/263121
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8594.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-026.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4327

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