CVE-2005-0764

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in command.C for rxvt-unicode before 5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file containing long escape sequences.

Affected products

Marc Lehmann Rxvt-Unicode: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 (+13)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84680
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-23.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84680
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-23.xml

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