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CVE-2005-0117

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in XShisen before 1.36 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long GECOS field.

Affected products

• Xshisen: through 1.36

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289784
• http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289784
• http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/56971fa6-641c-11d9-a097-000854d03344.html

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