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CVE-2003-0834

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-12-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in CDE libDtHelp library allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a modified DTHELPUSERSEARCHPATH environment variable and the Help feature, (2) DTSEARCHPATH, or (3) LOGNAME.

Affected products

• Sco Open Unix: 8.0
• Sco Unixware: 7.1.1, 7.1.3

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q4/0047.html
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57414
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=134&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/575804
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8973
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5141
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q4/0047.html
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57414
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=134&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/575804

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