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CVE-2004-1773

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in sharutils 4.2.1 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) long output from wc to shar, or (2) unknown vectors in unshar.

Affected products

• GNU Sharutils: 4.2, 4.2.1

References

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-01.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-377.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11298
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11093
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-01.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-377.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11298
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11093

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