CVE-2002-1506

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Linuxconf before 1.28r4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long LINUXCONF_LANG environment variable, which overflows an error string that is generated.

Affected products

Jacques Gelinas Linuxconf: 1.1.6r10, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9r1, 1.1.9r2, 1.2 (+27)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-08/0304.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0093.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9980.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/changes.hc?projet=linuxconf&version=1.28r4
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-08/0304.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0093.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9980.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5585
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/changes.hc?projet=linuxconf&version=1.28r4

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