CVE-2003-1053

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: none known
Published: 2003-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in XShisen allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) -KCONV command line option or (2) XSHISENLIB environment variable.

Affected products

Xshisen: 1.5.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213957
http://secunia.com/advisories/9950
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8776
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13358
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13359
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213957
http://secunia.com/advisories/9950
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8776
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html

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