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CVE-2004-1772

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in shar in GNU sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -o command line argument.

Affected products

• GNU Sharutils: 4.2, 4.2.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108137386310299&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-377.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/359639
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10066
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15759
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11722
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108137386310299&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-377.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/359639
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10066
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155

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